Basionym:
Zygodesmus sublilacinus Ellis & Holw., Bulletin of the Minnesota geological and Natural History Survey Botanical Series 3: 34 (1887) [MB#165374]
Obligate synonym: Tomentella sublilacina (Ellis & Holw.) Wakef., Mycologia 52 (6): 931 (1962) [MB#340129]
Taxonomic synonyms:
- Tomentella pseudopannosa Wakef., Transactions of the British Mycological Society 53: 189 (1969) [MB#340122]
- Thelephora pseudopannosa (Wakef.) Zmitr., Shchepin, Volobuev & Myasnikov, Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology 8 (3) (2018) [MB#824107]
- Hypochnus avellaneus Burt, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 3: 225 (1916) [MB#225507]
- Tomentella avellanea (Burt) Bourdot & Galzin, Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 40 (2): 153 (1924) [MB#208179]
- Tomentella porulosa f. albomarginata Bourdot & Galzin, Bull. Trimestriel Soc. Mycol. France 40 (2): 505 (1924) [MB#227159]