Basionym:
Calicium chrysocephalum Ach., Supplementum species quamplures novas descriptas nec non observationes varias complectens, quod praeviae suae Methodo Lichenum adjunxit Auctor (S. A. et L.): 15 (1803) [MB#380984]
Obligate synonyms:
- Coniocybe chrysocephala (Ach.) Rabenh. (1876) [MB#383640]
- Lichen chrysocephalus Turner, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7: 88, tab. 8 fig. 1 (1804) [MB#393842]
- Phacotium chrysocephalum (Ach.) Trevis. (1862) [MB#399999]
- Phacotrum chrysocephalum (Ach.) Gray, A natural arrangement of British plants 1: 484 (1821) [MB#400009]
- Cyphelium chrysocephalum (Ach.) De Not., Giorn. Bot. Ital. 2 (1): 318 (1846) [MB#207947]
- Lichen chrysocephalus Turner ex Ach., Methodus qua Omnes Detectos Lichenes Secundum Organa Carpomorpha ad Genera, Species et Varietates Redigere atque Observationibus Illustrare Tentavit Erik Acharius: 15 (1803) [MB#638202]
Taxonomic synonyms:
- Calicium chrysocephalum var. filare Ach., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 29: 281 (1808) [MB#463571]
- Chaenotheca chrysocephala f. filaris (Ach.) Blomb. & Forssell, Enumeratur Plantae Scandinaviae: 96 (1880) [MB#452220]
- Chaenotheca chrysocephala var. filaris (Ach.) A.L. Sm., A Monograph of the British Lichens, Ed. 2 1: 5 (1918) [MB#462984]
- Calicium chrysocephalum f. filare (Ach.) Cromb., A monograph of lichens found in Britain 1: 88 (1894) [MB#462967]