See text Nartheciaceae is a family of flowering plants.

The APG III system[1][3] 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:[4] Narthecium Nietneria Lophiola Aletris Metanarthecium