Synonymy:
Melanconis chrysostroma (Fr.) Tul. & C. Tul., Select. fung. carpol. (Paris) 2: 125 (1863)
Valsa xanthostroma (Fr.) Tul. & C. Tul., Select. fung. carpol. (Paris) 2: 125 (1863)
Melanconiella chrysostroma (Fr.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 1: 741 (1882)
Melanconis xanthostroma (Fr.) J. Schröt., in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien (Breslau) 3.2(4): 441 (1897) [1908]
Discodiaporthe xanthostroma (Fr.) Petr., Hedwigia 62: 294 (1921)
Wuestneia xanthostroma (Fr.) J. Reid & C. Booth, Canad. J. Bot. 67(3): 883 (1989)

Sphaeria xanthostroma Fr., in Montagne, Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 1: 301 (1834)
Valsa chrysostroma Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Sectio Post. (Stockholm): 412 (1849)

Valsa bitorulosa Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 3 3: 367 (1859)
Valsaria bitorulosa (Berk. & Broome) Auersw., in Rabenhorst, Fungi europ. exsicc. Klotzschii herbarii vivi mycologici continuatio, Edn nova. Series secunda, Cent. 10: no. 932 (1866)
Cryptospora bitorulosa (Berk. & Broome) Niessl, Hedwigia 16(6): 119 (1877)
Diaporthe bitorulosa (Berk. & Broome) Sacc., Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 1: 608 (1882)
Melanconis bitorulosa (Berk. & Broome) Ellis & Everh., N. Amer. Pyren. (Newfield): 522 (1892)

Valsa aurea Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 15: 53 (1860)
Wuestneia aurea (Fuckel) Auersw. ex Fuckel, Hedwigia 3: 159 (1864)
Cryptosporella aurea (Fuckel) Sacc., Michelia 1(no. 1): 30 (1877)

Valsa amygdalina Cooke, J. Bot., Lond. 4: 100 (1866)

Wuestneia xanthostroma var. dearnessii J. Reid & C. Booth, Canad. J. Bot. 67(3): 886 (1989)

Position in classification:
Wuestneia, Melanconidaceae, Diaporthales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi

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