Buchwaldoboletus kivuensis is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae native to Africa.

Originally described by Paul Heinemann in 1951 as Gyrodon lignicola, it was given its current name by Ernst Both and Beatriz Ortiz-Santana in A preliminary survey of the genus Buchwaldoboletus, published in "Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences" in 2011.

[1] The cap is convex, tomentose-pulverulent and dry.

Easily peeled off the mushroom, the skin is separated from the flesh by a thin gelatinous layer.

[2] Buchwaldoboletus kivuensis has been recorded in Congo, in the region of lakes Edward and Kivu, at altitude 1650 m. It grows on soil covered with dry branches and on Coffea arabica and Eucalyptus plantations.