Basionym: Chaetomium bostrychodes Zopf, Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 19: 173 (1877) [MB#161575] Taxonomic synonyms: - Chaetomium comosum Bainier, Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 25 (3): 211 (1909) [MB#156374] - Chaetomium leproplocinum Wener & Cain, Canadian Journal of Botany 48 (2): 325 (1970) [MB#310906] - Chaetomium microcephalum L.M. Ames, Mycologia 37 (1): 145 (1945) [MB#285135] - Chaetomium aterrimum Ellis & Everh., North American Flora 3 (1): 62 (1910) [MB#161940]