 The species was first described scientifically by American mycologist Howard James Banker in 1913 . Italian Pier Andrea <unk> placed the species in the genus Hydnum in 1925 , while Walter Henry Snell and Esther <unk> Dick placed it in <unk> in 1956 ; Hydnum peckii ( Banker ) <unk> and <unk> peckii Snell & <unk> Dick are synonyms of Hydnellum peckii . 
