It is well documented that species from this genera are an important part of the diet of the northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus).

[7] The genus name of Gautieria is in honour of Joseph (Giuseppe) Gautieri (1769 - 1833), who was an Italian doctor and naturalist from Novara.

[9] for hypogeous (below-ground) gasteromycetes with chambers exposed to the surface and lined with a spore-bearing hymenium, a basal rhizomorph, and ovoid-fusiform, striate-grooved spores.

Vittadini's original concept was based on two species he collected in Italy, Gauteria morchellaeformis and Gautieria graveolens.

[12] Fruit bodies (gasterocarps) are typically roughly spherical in shape, with a persisting single or branched rhizomorph.