Paurocotylis

Paurocotylis is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. The genus contains multiple fungi, with the most well known being Paurocotylis pila, a truffle-like fungus found in Europe and New Zealand.[1] It was described by Miles Joseph Berkeley in Joseph Dalton Hooker's 1855 publication The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage II, Flora Novae-Zealandiae.[2]

Paurocotylis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Pezizomycetes
Order:
Pezizales
Family:
Pyronemataceae
Genus:
Paurocotylis

Berk. ex Hook. f. (1855)
Type species
Paurocotylis pila
Berk. (1855)

Paurocotylis patagonica is a rare, little known species in the genus Paurocotylis. It is found in Patagonia.[3]

References
  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 502. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Hooker JD. (1855). The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage II, Flora Novae-Zealandiae. Vol. 2. p. 188.
  3. "Paurocotylis patagonica". redlist.info. Retrieved 2023-05-18.


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