Leprieuria

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

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| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Ascomycota

| classis = Ascomycetes

| ordo = Xylariales

| familia = Xylariaceae

| genus = Leprieuria

| genus_authority = Laessøe, J.D. Rogers & Whalley

| type_species = Leprieuria bacillum

| type_species_authority = (Mont.) Læssøe, J.D. Rogers & Whalley

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Leprieuria is a genus of fungi in the family Xylariaceae.{{cite journal|last=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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }} This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Leprieuria bacillum.{{cite web |title=Leprieuria bacillum (Mont.) Laessøe, J.D.Rogers & Whalley |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2577080 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=14 June 2022 |language=en}}

The genus name of Leprieuria is in honour of François Mathias René Leprieur (1799–1870) who was a French pharmacist and naturalist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

The genus was circumscribed by Thomas Læssøe, Jack David Rogers and Anthony James Seddon Whalley in Mycol. Res. vol.93 (Issue 2) on page 152 in 1989.