Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Arthropodium minus
Common name
Small vanilla lily
Family
Asparagaceae
Where found
Variety of habitats including dry forest, woodland and grassland. Occasional in dried, seasonally swampy ground. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.6 m tall. Leaves somewhat fleshy. Leaves basal, usually 5–34 cm long, 0.5–5 mm wide, erect, often withering before flowering. Flowers with 6 'petals' each 3–6 mm long, white, or mauve to purple. Filaments of the stamens densely hairy towards the anthers, white to purple. Anthers green to white. Flowers usually 1 per node, rarely in pairs. Flowering: August–December.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Family Anthericaceae in NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Arthropodium~minus (accessed 2 April 2021)
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