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{{short description|Extinct genus of eudicot plants}}
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{{Taxobox
| fossil_range = [[Early Cretaceous]], {{fossil_range|124.5}}
| regnum = [[Plantae]]
| unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
| unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]]
| ordo = [[Ranunculales]]
| familia = ''[[incertae sedis]]'' (probably [[Ranunculaceae]])
| genus = '''''Leefructus'''''
| genus_authority = Sun ''et al.'', 2011
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision =
*''L. mirus'' <small>Sun ''et al.'', 2011 ([[Type species|type]])</small>
}}
'''''Leefructus''''' is an [[extinct]] genus of [[eudicot]] [[plant]]s which existed in [[Yixian Formation]], [[China]] during the early [[Cretaceous]] period. It was first named by Ge Sun, David L. Dilcher, Hongshan Wang and Zhiduan Chen in [[2011 in paleontology|2011]] and the [[type species]] is ''Leefructus mirus''.<ref name=Leefructus>{{cite journal |author1=Ge Sun |author2=David L. Dilcher |author3=Hongshan Wang |author4=Zhiduan Chen |year=2011 |title=A eudicot from the Early Cretaceous of China |journal=Nature |volume=471 |issue= 7340|pages=625–628 |doi=10.1038/nature09811 |pmid=21455178|bibcode=2011Natur.471..625S |s2cid=205224036 }}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Prehistoric angiosperm genera]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2011]]
[[Category:Eudicots]]
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