[2] Its former name Phellinus linteus is applied wider, including to an East Asian mushroom.

Polyporus linteus was named by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis and first reported with specimen from Nicaragua in 1860.

[4] It was renamed Tropicoporus linteus by Li-Wei Zhou and Yu-Cheng Dai in 2015.

[2] The following mushrooms are applied with the name Phellinus linteus: A description was made by Tian et al. (2012) for the epitype.

[6] This mushroom's tube trama is dimitic, contains generative and skeletal hyphae.