Protolepidodendrales

{{Short description|Extinct order of spore-bearing plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Leclercqia complexa.jpg

| image_caption = Leclercqia complexa

| taxon = Protolepidodendrales

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = * Protolepidodendraceae

}}

The Protolepidodendrales are an extinct order of lycopsids that flourished from the Devonian to the lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) periods.{{cite book|author1=Taylor, Edith L. |author2=Taylor, Thomas N. |author3=Krings, Michael |title=Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants|publisher=Academic Press|date=2009|pages=271–74|isbn=9780080557830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_29tNNeQKeMC&q=Protolepidodendrales}}

Leclercqia is one of the best-known genera. Protolepidodendropsis is another genus included in this order.