The species was first described in 2008 by Bao-Kai Cui and Yu-Cheng Dai, both of the Beijing Forestry University, in an article in the journal "Mycotaxon".
The species was first described in 2008 by Bao-Kai Cui and Yu-Cheng Dai, both of the Beijing Forestry University. The pair named the species "Fomitiporia ellipsoidea", describing it for the first time in an article in the journal "Mycotaxon".