 Its current name was assigned by German Otto Kuntze in 1898.William Alphonso Murrill renamed it as "Rostkovites brevipes" in 1948; the genus "Rostkovites" is now considered to be synonymous with "Suillus".Agaricales specialist Rolf Singer included "Suillus brevipes" in the subsection "Suillus" of genus "Suillus", an infrageneric (a taxonomic level below genus) grouping of species characterized by a cinnamon-brown spore print, and pores less than 1 mm wide.