Basionym:
Agaricus carbonarius Fr., Observationes mycologicae 2: 33 (1818) [MB#238610]
Obligate synonyms:
- Flammula carbonaria (Fr.) Quél., Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation de Montbéliard ser. 2, 5: 232 (1872) [MB#159006]
- Flammula carbonaria (Fr.) P. Kumm., Der Führer in die Pilzkunde: 82 (1871) [MB#169750]
- Pholiotina carbonaria (Fr.) anon., Lilloa 22: 517 (?) [MB#303062]
- Dryophila carbonaria (Fr.) Quél., Enchiridion Fungorum in Europa media et praesertim in Gallia Vigentium: 70 (1886) [MB#455706]
- Gymnopilus carbonarius (Fr.) Murrill, Mycologia 4 (5): 256 (1912) [MB#477993]
- Inocybe carbonaria (Fr.) Roze, Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 23: 113 (1876) [MB#494853]
Taxonomic synonyms:
- Pholiota persicina P.D. Orton, Transactions of the British Mycological Society 91 (4): 567 (1988) [MB#135174]
- Pholiota highlandensis f. persicina (P.D. Orton) Holec, Libri Botanici 20: 118 (2001) [MB#462475]
- Flammula carbonaria var. gigantea J.E. Lange, Flora Agaricina Danica 5: IV, 102 (1940) [MB#346111]
- Flammula gigantea (J.E. Lange) M.M. Moser, Sydowia 3 (1-6): 372 (1949) [MB#286473]
- Pholiota carbonaria var. gigantea (J.E. Lange) anon. ined. (1968) [MB#456028]
- Pholiota fulvozonata A.H. Sm. & Hesler, The North American species of Pholiota: 280 (1968) [MB#319972]
- Pholiota luteobadia A.H. Sm. & Hesler, The North American species of Pholiota: 284 (1968) [MB#319996]
- Pholiota carbonaria A.H. Sm., Mycologia 36 (3): 253 (1944) [MB#482550]
- Flammula carbonaria var. spegazziniana Traverso, Sylloge Fungorum 23: 262 (1925) [MB#158802]
- Agaricus highlandensis Peck, Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History 24: 67 (1872) [MB#372137]
- Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) A.H. Sm. & Hesler, The North American species of Pholiota: 287 (1968) [MB#319983]
- Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Quadr. & Lunghini, Quaderni dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 264: 11 (1990) [MB#127444]
- Flammula highlandensis (Peck) Peck, Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History 50: 138 (1897) [MB#455799]
- Naucoria highlandensis (Peck) Sacc., Sylloge Fungorum 5: 845 (1887) [MB#249650]
- Gymnopilus highlandensis (Peck) Murrill, North American Flora 10 (3): 197 (1917) [MB#502456]
- Pholiota highlandensis (Peck) Singer, Lilloa 25: 343 (1952) [MB#522057]
- Pholiota carbonicola A.H. Sm., Mycologia 36 (3): 254 (1944) [MB#529215]
- Pholiota carbonigena Singer & Digilio, Lilloa 25: 343 (1952) [MB#830226]