 "Baorangia bicolor" was originally named in 1807 by the Italian botanist Giuseppe Raddi.American mycologist Charles Horton Peck named a species collected in Sandlake, New York, in 1870, "Boletus bicolor".Although this naming is considered illegitimate due to article 53.1 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Peck is still given as the authority in the Bessette "et al".