Basionym:
Sphaeria deusta Hoffm., Vegetabilia Cryptogama 1: 3, tab. 1, fig.2 (1787) [MB#201738]
Obligate synonyms:
- Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev., Scottish Cryptogamic Flora 6: 324, t. 324 (1828) [MB#355552]
- Kretzschmaria deusta (Hoffm.) P.M.D. Martin, S. African J. Bot. 36 (2): 80 (1970) [MB#316081]
- Hypoxylon ustulatum Bull., Histoire des champignons de la France 1: 176, t. 487:1 (1791) [MB#178151]
- Stromatosphaeria deusta (Hoffm.) Grev., Flora Edinensis: 355 (1824) [MB#437992]
- Discosphaera deusta (Hoffm.) Dumort., Commentationes botanicae: 91 (1822) [MB#437993]
- Nemania deusta (Hoffm.) Gray, A natural arrangement of British plants 1: 516 (1821) [MB#453195]
Taxonomic synonyms:
- Ustulina vulgaris Tul. & C. Tul., Selecta Fungorum Carpologia, Tomus Secundus. Xylariei - Valsei - Sphaeriei 2: 23 (1863) [MB#232884]
- Sphaeria maxima Weber, Spicilegium Flora Goettingensis: 286 (1778) [MB#213611]
- Ustulina maxima (Weber) Wettst., Vorarbeiten zu einer Pilzflora der Steiermark: 592 (1886) [MB#200508]
- Nemania maxima (Weber) House, Bull. New York State Mus. 266: 48 (1925) [MB#253241]
- Sphaeria versipellis Tode, Fungi Mecklenburgenses Selecti 2: 55, t. 17:129 (1791) [MB#235980]
- Sphaeria deusta Schumach., Enumeratio Plantarum, in Partibus Sællandiæ Septentrionalis et Orientalis 2: 163 (1803) [MB#493308]
- Sphaeria albodeusta Wahlenb., Flora suecica 2: 1001 (1826) [MB#437985]
- Hypoxylon magnosporum Lloyd, Mycol. Writ. 6 (65): 1054 (1921) [MB#437998]