Nivenioideae
{{Short description|Subfamily of flowering plants}}
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| image = Klattia stokoei 1DS-II 1-C5056.jpg
| image_caption = Klattia stokoei
| taxon = Nivenioideae
| authority = Eaton
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
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Nivenioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants and one of the six subfamilies in the family Iridaceae. It contains three genera,{{cite web |title=
Family: Iridaceae Juss., nom. cons. |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?type=subfamily&id=1475 |publisher=npgsweb.ars-grin.gov (Germplasm Resources Information Network) |accessdate=26 October 2016}} from South Africa which are the only true shrubs in the family (Klattia, Nivenia and Witsenia),{{cite journal |first1=John C. |last1=Manning |first2=Peter |last2=Goldblatt |title=Systematic and phylogenetic significance of the seed coat in the shrubby African Iridaceae, Nivenia, Klattia and Witsenia |date=December 1991 |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=107 |issue=4 |pages=387–404 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1991.tb00229.x }} It previously included Aristea, Patersonia and also Geosiris, which are now each placed in their own monotypic subfamily.{{cite journal |last1=Reeves |first1=G |last2=Chase |first2=MW |last3=Goldblatt |first3=P |last4=Rudall |first4=P |last5=Fay |first5=MF |last6=Cox |first6=AV |last7=Lejeune |first7=B |last8=Souza-Chies |first8=T |title=Molecular systematics of Iridaceae: evidence from four plastid DNA regions |pmid=21669639 |journal=American Journal of Botany |date=November 2001 |volume=88 |issue=88 |pages=2074–87 |doi=10.2307/3558433 |jstor=3558433 }}{{cite journal|last1=Goldblatt|first1=Peter|last2=Rodriguez|first2=Aaron|last3=Powell|first3=M. P.|last4=Davies|first4=Jonathan T.|last5=Manning|first5=John C.|last6=van der Bank|first6=M.|last7=Savolainen|first7=Vincent|title=Iridaceae 'Out of Australasia'? Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Divergence Time Based on Plastid DNA Sequences|url=https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~davies/pdfs/Goldblatt%20et%20al.%202008.pdf|journal=Systematic Botany|volume=33|issue=3|year=2008|pages=495–508|issn=0363-6445|doi=10.1600/036364408785679806|access-date=2020-01-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191342/https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~davies/pdfs/Goldblatt%20et%20al.%202008.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
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