[4] In 2020 the Pterulaceae family was reclassified based on phylogenetic analysis and many species were split into Pterula, Myrmecopterula, Pterulicium and Phaeopterula genera.

This species was one of them and was reclassified as Pterulicium caricis-pendulae by the mycologists Caio A. Leal-Dutra, Bryn Tjader Mason Dentinger and Gareth W. Griffith in 2020.

[5] Pterulicium caricis-pendulae is a small whitish coral fungus with a delicate branching structure.

Fruit body: 0.5-2mm thin, hairlike coral that is sparsely branched with smooth and shiny pointed tips.

It has been found in woodland and marshes growing on decaying debris from the Carex pendula sedge as well as Juncus rushes and Symphytum.