Emplectopteridaceae is an extinct family of pteridosperms ("seed ferns") known mainly from Permian floras of the Cathaysian Realm (corresponding to modern East Asia).

They were mostly shrubby plants with a scrambling or upright habit, and favoured a range of habitats from arid to moist or even aquatic.

[1] The foliage is the most abundant known remains of this family, having been reported from Artinskian to Wuchiapingian macrofloras of both north and south China.

[4] The ovules were bilaterally symmetrical and attached to the underside of the leaves / fronds that did not differ significantly from normal vegetative foliage[5] Pollen organs were a complex of filiform microsporophylls each bearing 2-8 sporangia (assigned to the fossil-genus Jiaochengia).

[1] The family is currently only known from adpressions (compression-impressions), and the consequential paucity of anatomical evidence has resulted in some disagreement as to its affinities.