 The species was first described as Agaricus tenacellus by Christian Hendrik Persoon in his 1796 Observationes <unk> . In its taxonomic history , it has been moved to the genera Collybia by Paul Kummer in 1803 , Marasmius by Jules Favre in 1939 , and <unk> by Georges Métrod in 1952 . Rolf Singer transferred it to the newly circumscribed genus Strobilurus in 1962 , giving it the name by which it is currently known . 
