(1886) Strobilomyces is a genus of boletes (mushrooms having a spongy mass of pores under the cap).

Members of the genus can be distinguished by the following characteristics: The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek word Strobilos (στρόβιλος), meaning "pine cone", a reference to the appearance of S. strobilaceus.

The ending "-myces" is a standard suffix meaning "mushroom" (Ancient Greek: μύкης).

In some older classification systems it is assigned to a separate family Strobilomycetaceae,[2] but more recent phylogenetic evidence merges it into the larger family Boletaceae (suborder Boletineae).

[3] These results corroborate older DNA analyses by K. Høiland (1987), which suggested that Strobilomyces is only distantly related to more familiar boletes such as Suillus, but was in fact more closely related to the Earth Balls (Scleroderma).