 Calostoma cinnabarinum has a long taxonomic history . Leonard <unk> illustrated a " dusty fungus from Virginia , an elegant twisted work with a coral @-@ red stipe " in his 1692 <unk> that was later recognized as this species . In 1809 , Christiaan Persoon provided the first modern scientific description , as Scleroderma <unk> , 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 <unk> name , he renamed the type species C. cinnabarinum . 
