Biology:Paurocotylis

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Paurocotylis
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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. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. 2008. p. 502. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk. 
  2. Hooker JD. (1855). The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage II, Flora Novae-Zealandiae. 2. p. 188. 
  3. "Paurocotylis patagonica". https://redlist.info/iucn/species_view/1000286/. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Kumar, Leticia M.; Smith, Matthew E.; Nouhra, Eduardo R.; Orihara, Takamichi; Sandoval Leiva, Pablo; Pfister, Donald H.; McLaughlin, David J.; Trappe, James M. et al. (2017-03-01). "A molecular and morphological re-examination of the generic limits of truffles in the tarzetta-geopyxis lineage – Densocarpa, Hydnocystis, and Paurocotylis" (in en). Fungal Biology 121 (3): 264–284. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2016.12.004. ISSN 1878-6146. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878614617300016. 
  5. Hobart, Caroline (2019). "Paurocotylis pila is still spreading across Britain: some thoughts" (in en). Field Mycology 20 (1): 21–25. doi:10.1016/j.fldmyc.2019.01.007. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1468164119300076. 

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