Synonymy:
Ascobolus lacteus Cooke & W. Phillips, Grevillea 5(no. 35): 119 (1877)
Ascophanus lacteus (Cooke & W. Phillips) W. Phillips, Man. Brit. Discomyc. (London): 306 (1887)
Helotium lacteum (Cooke & W. Phillips) Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. (London) 4: 269 (1895)

Ascophanus lacteus var. microsporus Heimerl, Jahresber. K. K. Öber-realschule Bezirke Sechshaus, Wien 15: 25 (1889)

Position in classification:
Coprotus, Incertae sedis, Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae, Pezizomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi

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