The bolete was first described in 1971 by mycologists Alexander H. Smith and Harry Delbert Thiers as Boletus pseudorubinellus.

The type collection was made in Cheboygan County, near Burt Lake in Michigan.

[4] The fruit body has a yellow to red-pink cap that is 1.5–6 cm (0.6–2.4 in) across and convex in shape, sometimes with a central boss, and ages to a more cinnamon color.

The pores are 1–2 mm wide and irregular, red-pink in younger mushrooms and fading to a yellow- or orange-brown in older specimens.

[2] Chalciporus pseudorubinellus is found in conifer forests, often among moss, from New York west to Minnesota in North America, the mushrooms appearing from July to September.