Pachycudonia spathulata, commonly known as Manzanita butter clumps, is a rare and little-known fungus that grows in association with manzanita and Pacific madrone trees on the west coast of North America.[2][3] This fungus was first described in 1942 by Sanshi Imai as Cudonia spathulata and renamed by Imai in 1950 to Pachycudonia spathulata.[4][5][a]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Leotiomycetes |
| Order: | Rhytismatales |
| Family: | Cudoniaceae |
| Genus: | Pachycudonia |
| Species: | P. spathulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Pachycudonia spathulata (S.Imai) S.Imai (1950)
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Mycologists are investigating the range of this fungus and seeking new observations and specimen collections.[7]
Notes
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edit- ^ "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Pachycudonia spathulata (S. Imai) S. Imai, Bot. Mag., Tokyo 63: 235 (1950)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ "Cudonia spathulata (Manzanita Butter Clumps)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
- ^ Siegel, Noah; Vellinga, Else C.; Schwarz, Christian; Castellano, Michael A.; Ikeda, Diane (2019). A Field Guide to the Rare Fungi of California's National Forests (PDF). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bookmobile. pp. 267–268. OCLC 1349507560.
- ^ "Pachycudonia spathulata (302170)". Mycobank.
- ^ "Pachycudonia spathulata (S.Imai) S.Imai". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
- ^ Science Reports of the Yokohama National University: Biological and geological sciences (in Japanese). Faculty of Education, Yokohama National University. 1953.
- ^ Roo Vandegrift, Bitty A. Roy & Joanne Schwartz (October 2020). "Manzanita Butter Clumps" (PDF). Fungal Diversity Survey (FUNDIS.org). Sebastopol, California.
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