Synonymy:
Pycnopodium lentigerum (Corda) Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 5: 18 (1842)
Pilobolus oedipus subsp. lentiger (Corda) P. Karst., Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 31: 71 (1878)

Pilobolus oedipus Bref., Bot. Unters. Schimmelpilze (Leipzig) 4: 69 (1881)

Pilobolus exiguus Bainier, Étud. Mucor., (Thèse, Paris) (Paris): 47 (1882)

Pilobolus kleinii f. sphaerosporus Grove [as 'sphaerospora'], J. Bot., Lond. 22: 132 (1884)
Pilobolus kleinii var. sphaerosporus (Grove) A. Fisch., in Winter, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl., Edn 2 (Leipzig) 1(4): 263 (1892)
Pilobolus sphaerosporus (Grove) Palla, Öst. bot. Z. 50(10): 365 (1900)

Pilobolus lentiger var. macrosporus Berl. & De Toni, in Berlese, De Toni & Fischer, Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 7(1): 188 (1888)

Pilobolus borzianus Morini, Mém. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna, Ser. 6 3: 126 (1905) [1904]

Pilobolus borzianus var. geminatus Morini, R.C. Secc. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna, sér. 6 6: 123 (1909)

Position in classification:
Pilobolus, Pilobolaceae, Mucorales, Incertae sedis, Mucoromycetes, Mucoromycota, Fungi

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