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 is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. The genus contains multiple species, 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 patagonica is a rare, little known species in the genus Paurocotylis. It is found in Patagonia.[3]

Selected species

  • P. bynumii (USA[4])
  • P. echinosperma
  • P. niveus
  • P. patagonica (Argentina, Chile[4])
  • P. pila (New Zealand and Australia,[4] introduced to UK[5])
  • P. prima
  • P. singeri (Argentina[4])
  • P. watlingii (Australia[4])

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.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Kumar, Leticia M.; Smith, Matthew E.; Nouhra, Eduardo R.; Orihara, Takamichi; Sandoval Leiva, Pablo; Pfister, Donald H.; McLaughlin, David J.; Trappe, James M.; Healy, Rosanne A. (2017-03-01). "A molecular and morphological re-examination of the generic limits of truffles in the tarzetta-geopyxis lineage – Densocarpa, Hydnocystis, and Paurocotylis". Fungal Biology. 121 (3): 264–284. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2016.12.004. ISSN 1878-6146.
  5. ↑ Hobart, Caroline (2019). "Paurocotylis pila is still spreading across Britain: some thoughts". Field Mycology. 20 (1): 21–25. doi:10.1016/j.fldmyc.2019.01.007.


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