[4] The species was first described by Wally Snell as Boletinus ochraceoroseus in 1941, based on specimens he had collected near Smith Creek in Idaho.

[5] René Pomerleau and Alexander H. Smith transferred it to Fuscoboletinus in 1962.

[6] In 1973, Rolf Singer transferred the species to Suillus.

[7] The cap is whitish then red, and dry and fibrillose, sometimes with buff veil remnants on the edge.

The stipe is yellowish with red-brown hues near the base, usually has a ring or ring zone, often hollow, with flesh staining blue-green.