The fungus was originally described in 1872 as Polypores fractipes by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis.

William Murrill moved it to Grifola in 1904,[3] while it was later transferred to Abortiporus (Bondartsev, 1959), Heteroporus (Fidalgo, 1969),[4] and Spongipellis (Kotlaba & Pouzar, 1976).

[6] Heterotypic synonyms (having different types) of Loweomyces fractipes include Abortiporus tropicalis Murrill (1910), Polyporus delicatus Berk.

The stipe is placed centrally to laterally, dimidiate with fan- to kidney-shaped caps or almost effused-reflexed, 1–4 cm wide, 1–5 mm thick, soft when fresh, brittle when dry.

When the stipe is present it is white to yellowish, measuring up to 4 cm long, and it is cylindric to flattened and expanded towards the cap.