A biologist specializing in mycology is called a mycologist. The generic name is in honour of Dutch mycologist and botanist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. Proper identification requires a microbiologist or mycologist. The term "mycology" and the complementary "mycologist" were first used in 1836 by M.J. Berkeley. Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described numerous slime moulds as Myxogasteres in 1829. The genus was circumscribed by Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1889. The specific eponym honors mycologist Charles Horton Peck. "Laetiporus sulphureus" was first described as "Boletus sulphureus" by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard in 1789. The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Hermann Friedrich Bonorden in 1851. Cage was also an avid amateur mycologist. It was circumscribed by mycologist Robert A. Shoemaker in 1959. The taxon is named after Russian mycologist Apollinari Semyonovich Bondarzew. It was Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten who in 1879 assigned its current name. The species was first described scientifically by American mycologist Howard James Banker in 1913. It was circumscribed by British mycologist Edwin John Butler in 1911.