In 1940 it was reclassified as Leucocoprinus zeylanicus by the Dutch mycologist Karel Bernard Boedijn.

[6] L. zeylanicus is scarcely recorded and little known however it is reported to be a very common species in the Western Ghats ranges of India.

In 2003 a mushroom survey conducted at the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, in Kerala state, India observed this species growing on the campus.

It was found scattered or in groups on the forest floor and in flower beds in the garden which had been well fertilised with manure as well as on cow dung itself and occasionally on the bark of living trees.

[3] Many of his observations were conducted in this area so it is possible that they were in or around the vicinity of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya,[7] which were founded in 1843.