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Nartheciaceae

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Nartheciaceae
from Sturm (1796)
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Nartheciaceae

Fr. ex Bjurzon (1846)

Nartheciaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has only rarely been recognized by systems of plant taxonomy.

The APG III system does recognize such a family and places it in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots. As circumscribed by APG III it includes a few dozen species of herbaceous plants in four or five genera, including: