Hippocrepidea

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| taxon = Hippocrepidea

| authority = Sérus. (1997){{cite journal |vauthors=Aptroot A, Diederich P, Sérusiaux E, Sipman HJ |year=1997 |title=Lichens and lichenicolous fungi from New Guinea |journal=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |volume=64 |pages=1–220}}

| type_species = Hippocrepidea nigra

| type_species_authority = Sérus. (1997)

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Hippocrepidea is a genus of fungi in the family Gomphillaceae.{{cite journal|vauthors=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archive-date=March 18, 2009 }} This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Hippocrepidea nigra.