Nartheciaceae

{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}}

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|image = Narthecium_ossifragum_Sturm41.jpg

|image_caption = Narthecium ossifragum
1796 illustrationSturm, CC-PD-Mark, Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen, Narthecium ossifragum - botanical illustrations

|taxon = Nartheciaceae

|authority = Fr. ex Bjurzon{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122630309/abstract |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170525104318/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract |url-status=dead |archive-date=2017-05-25 | format= PDF |accessdate=2013-06-26 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

|subdivision = See text

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Nartheciaceae is a family of flowering plants. The APG III system{{Citation |last=Stevens |first=P.F. |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Nartheciaceae Genera |url=http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/genera/nartheciaceaegen.html |accessdate=2011-10-21 }} places it in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots. As circumscribed by APG IV (2016) it includes 35 species of herbaceous plants in the following five genera:{{cite journal |author1=Christenhusz, M. J. M. |author2=Byng, J. W. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2016 | title = The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase | journal = Phytotaxa | volume = 261 | pages = 201–217 | url = http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598 | doi = 10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1 | issue = 3 | publisher = Magnolia Press | doi-access = free }}

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|1=Narthecium

|2=Nietneria

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|2=Lophiola

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|1=Aletris

|2=Metanarthecium

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