Tasmania
has three or four native species of vanilla-lilies (Arthropodium
sp.). These are tufted plants with narrow
grass-like leaves and branched inflorescences carrying
smallish white to mauve flowers, that often hang upside
down. The species formerly known as Dichopogon strictus
is now known as Arthropodium strictum.
A. pendulum is listed separately in the Census of the
Vascular Plants of Tasmania but is included here as part of
A. milleflorum until a review of the genus is
complete.
Arthropodium was once considered to be
part of Liliaceae, which was a very artificial grouping of
plants and has therefore been splintered into numerous
families. To see the fates of the other Tasmanian genera
formerly in Liliaceae click here.
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