[1] This species was distinguished by some authors from H. coralloides based on its substrate - beech wood (rarely other hardwoods).

[2] The species was described under the name Hydnum clathroides by Peter Simon Pallas in the second volume of Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des rußischen Reichs, published in 1773.

[5] In 1959 Rudolf Arnold Maas Geesteranus proved the misapplication and approval of the epithet by Elias Fries and proposed a change in the treatment of the taxon H. clathroides.

Until now, specimens found on fir (Abies) were traditionally called this, but Maas Geesteranus assigned this name to the species fruiting on beech (Fagus).

[6] Some mycologists, like Stanisław Domański [pl], André Marchand [fr] and Theodore Louis Jahn accepted new definitions.