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| genus = Boletus
| species = shiyong
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'''''Boletus shiyong''''' is a species of porcini-like fungus native to Yunnan Province in Southwestern China, where it grows under ''[[Biology:Picea|Picea]]'' spp., ''[[Biology:Pinus densata|Pinus densata]]'', and ''[[Biology:Quercus aquifolioides|Quercus aquifolioides]]''. It is very closely related to ''[[Biology:Boletus quercophilus|Boletus quercophilus]]'' and ''[[Biology:Boletus nobilissimus|Boletus nobilissimus]]''; less closely to ''[[Biology:Boletus aereus|Boletus aereus]]''.<ref name=Cui2016>{{cite journal |last1=Cui |first1=Yang-Yang |last2=Feng |first2=Bang |last3=Wu |first3=Gang |last4=Xu |first4=Jianping |last5=Yang |first5=Zhu L. |title=Porcini mushrooms (Boletus sect. Boletus) from China |journal=Fungal Diversity |date=November 2016 |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=189–212 |doi=10.1007/s13225-015-0336-7 |s2cid=12866685 |url=http://groups.kib.cas.cn/klpb/yzl/tnh_fblw/201509/P020150928547013572278.pdf}}</ref>

The epithet ''shiyong'' is the Hanyu Pinyin transcription of the fungus's Mandarin epithet, {{lang|zh|食用}} "edible", originally used to translate the epithet of ''[[Biology:Boletus edulis|Boletus edulis]]''.
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