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Paurocotylis

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Pezizomycetes

Rank
  
Genus

Division
  
Ascomycota

Family
  
Pyronemataceae

Order
  
Pezizales

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Paurocotylis is a genus of fungi in the Pyronemataceae family. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Paurocotylis pila, a truffle-like fungus found in Europe and New Zealand. It was described by Miles Joseph Berkeley in Joseph Dalton Hooker's 1855 publication The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage II, Flora Novae-Zealandiae.

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Paurocotylis Wikipedia