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.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0