First described scientifically by Nikolai Nikolaevich Woronichin in 1914 as a species of Plectodiscella, the fungus was transferred to the genus Elsinoë by American mycologist Anna Eliza Jenkins in 1932.
The fungus was initially described scientifically by Nikolai Nikolaevich Woronichin in 1914 under the classification Plectodiscella. Later, it was transferred to the genus Elsinoë by Anna Eliza Jenkins, an American mycologist, in 1932.