 Calostoma cinnabarinum has a long taxonomic history . Leonard Plukenet illustrated a " dusty fungus from Virginia , an elegant twisted work with a coral @-@ red stipe " in his 1692 Phytographia that was later recognized as this species . In 1809 , Christiaan Persoon provided the first modern scientific description , as Scleroderma callostoma , and suggested that the species might be distinctive enough to warrant the creation of a new genus . Later that year , Nicaise Desvaux did just that , creating the genus Calostoma . To avoid a tautonymous name , he renamed the type species C. cinnabarinum . 
