Originally published as "Taxus grandis (STEGER) KRÄUSEL" with illegitimate basionym Pinus grandis Steger (1883); when published, the new fossil-species included in synonymy several validly published fossil-species, viz. Pinus dicksoniana Steger (1883), Pinus fissa Steger (1883), and Pinus porskii Steger (1883).