Botany: Aletris, Lophiola, Metanarthecium, Narthecium, Nietneria.
TaxonomyBurmanniaceae is a family of parasitic plants that was placed in earlier classification together with
Orchidaceae. In the
Apg3 classification it is placed together with
Dioscoreaceae.
In the
Plant theory it is placed in
Subphase 6.