Lycoperdon epidendrum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1184. 1753.

"Habitat in Lignis, Parietibus antiquis." RCN: 8524.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Generitype of Lycoperdon Linnaeus, non Pers. (vide Martin in Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist. 20(8): 23. 1966).

Current name: Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr. (Lycogalaceae).

Note: Lister (in J. Bot. 51: 161. 1913) reproduced the protologue, adding (p. 184), of 1287.11 (LINN), "it is very possible that this may be Linné’s type, but we have no proof that it is so". See also Martin (in Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist. 20(8): 23. 1966).