Synonymy:
Phylacteria atra (Weinm.) Rea, Brit. basidiomyc. (Cambridge): 653 (1922)
Stereum atrum (Weinm.) Cooke ex G. Cunn., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 77: 276 (1953) [1952]

Corticium chalybaeum Pers., Observ. mycol. (Lipsiae) 2: 19 (1800) [1799]
Thelephora chalybaea (Pers.) Pers. [as 'chalibaea'], Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 578 (1801)
Hypochnus chalybaeus (Pers.) J. Schröt., in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien (Breslau) 3.1(25–32): 417 (1888) [1889]
Coniophora chalybaea (Pers.) Pat., Essai Tax. Hyménomyc. (Lons-le-Saunier): 109 (1900)
Tomentella chalybaea (Pers.) Höhn. & Litsch., Wiesner Festschrift (Wien): 77 (1908)

Tomentella atramentaria Rostr., Bot. Tidsskr. 19: 41 (1894)
Thelephora atramentaria (Rostr.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 11: 117 (1895)

Ptychogaster niger Lloyd, Mycol. Writ. (Cincinnati) 6(Letter 64): 1004 (1920) [1921]

Hypochnus schmoranzeri Bres., Stud. Trent., Classe II, Sci. Nat. Econ. 7(1): 13 (1926)
Tomentella schmoranzeri (Bres.) M.J. Larsen, Mycol. Mem. 4: 80 (1974)

Position in classification:
Thelephora, Thelephoraceae, Thelephorales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi

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