Basionym:
Peziza melaena Fr., Systema Mycologicum 2 (1): 60 (1822) [MB#210932]
Obligate synonyms:
- Plectania melaena (Fr.) Paden, Mycotaxon 14 (1): 1 (1982) [MB#110903]
- Pseudoplectania melaena var. melaena (Fr.) Sacc. (1889) [MB#423274]
- Peziza melaena var. melaena Fr. (1822) [MB#520571]
- Melascypha melaena (Fr.) Boud., Icones Mycologicae Sér. 1 (Livr. 2): [3]
(1904) [MB#803900]
- Melascypha melaena var. melaena (?) [MB#584590]
Taxonomic synonyms:
- Peziza vogesiaca Moug. & Nestl., Stirp. Crypt. Vog.-Rhen. Fasc. 6: no. 584 (1818) [MB#198289]
- Pseudoplectania vogesiaca (Moug. & Nestlé) Seaver, Mycologia 5 (6): 300 (1913) [MB#121672]
- Peziza melania var. vogesiaca (Moug. & Nestl.) Pers., Mycologia Europaea 1: 239 (1822) [MB#498591]
- Peziza melania a vogesiaca (Moug. & Nestl.) Pers. (1822) [MB#582637]
- Peziza melania Pers., Mycologia Europaea 1: 239 (1822) [MB#217618]
- Aleuria melania (Pers.) Gillet, Champignons de France. Les Discomycètes 2: 37 (1879) [MB#803899]
- Peziza melainia Pers. (1822) [MB#582641]
- Peziza spongiosa Peck, Bot. Gaz. (London) 5: 35 (1880) [MB#803902]
- Pulparia spongiosa (Peck) Sacc., Syll. Fung. 8: 612 (1889) [MB#181762]
- Bulgaria spongiosa (Peck) Peck, Bot. Gaz. 6 (7): 241 (1881) [MB#237436]