Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Fungi Whittaker - fungi |
| divisio | Basidiomycota R. T. Moore - club fungi |
| subphylum | Agaricomycotina Doweld |
| class | Agaricomycetes |
| Agaricomycetes incertae sedis | |
| order | Russulales - brittle fleshed fungi |
| family | Auriscalpiaceae |
| genus | Lentinellus P. Karst. |
| species | Lentinellus cochleatus (Pers.) P. Karst. |
| varietas | Lentinellus cochleatus var. inolens (Konrad & Maubl.) Kühner & Romagn. |