Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Arthropodium minus
Small vanilla lily
Asparagaceae
Variety of habitats including dry forest, woodland and grassland. Occasional in dried, seasonally swampy ground. Widespread.
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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