Lichen sanguinarium Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1140. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae rupibus truncisque arborum." RCN: 8164.

Lectotype ( Jørgensen & al. in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 115: 353, f. 57. 1994): Herb. Linn. No. 1273.10 (LINN) .

Current name: Mycoblastus sanguinarius (L.) Norman ( Mycoblastaceae).