Synonymy:
Hydnum pulcherrimum Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 235 (1849)
Steccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Banker, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 12(2): 129 (1906)
Creolophus pulcherrimus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Banker, Mycologia 5(6): 294 (1913)
Dryodon pulcherrimus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Pilát [as 'pulcherrimum'], Bull. Trimestriel Soc. Mycol. France 49(3-4): 315 (1934) [1933]
Donkia pulcherrima (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Pilát, Bull. Trimestriel Soc. Mycol. France 52(3): 328 (1937) [1936]

Hydnum gilvum Berk., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 3: 168 (1851)

Hydnum uleanum Henn., Hedwigia 36(4): 198 (1897)

Hydnum kauffmanii Peck [as 'kauffmani'], Bull. Torrey bot. Club 34: 348 (1907)

Hydnum australe Lloyd, Mycol. Writ. (Cincinnati) 5(Letter 69): 11 (1919)

Position in classification:
Climacodon, Meruliaceae, Polyporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi

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