# Leprieuria

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{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| taxon = Leprieuria
| 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](/source/fungi) in the family [Xylariaceae](/source/Xylariaceae).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota &ndash; 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1&ndash;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=2009-03-18 }}</ref> This is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic) genus, containing the single species '''''Leprieuria bacillum'''''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

The genus name of ''Leprieuria'' is in honour of [François Mathias René Leprieur](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mathias_Ren%C3%A9_Leprieur) (1799–1870) who was a French pharmacist and naturalist.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=25391 Index Fungorum]

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Category:Xylariales
Category:Monotypic Ascomycota genera

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