Christian Hendrik Persoon named the species Peziza nigrella in his Systema Mycologia in 1801,[REF] and it was sanctioned under this name in Elias Magnus Fries' Systema Mycologicum in 1821 [REF].
The fungus is commonly known as the "ebony cup", the "black false plectania",[REF] or the "hairy black cup" [REF].