 The naturalist Palisot de Beauvois was the first to use the name "Favolus" in his 1805 work "Flore d'Oware et de Benin, en Afrique".His type species was "Favolus hirtus", a fungus first collected in Africa.Elias Fries used the name as a subgenus of "Polyporus" in 1821.