| Paurocotylis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Pyronemataceae |
| Genus: |
Paurocotylis Berk. ex Hook. f. (1855) |
| Type species | |
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Paurocotylis pila Berk. (1855) |
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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.