Arthropodium minus R.Br.

Tubers ellipsoidal, c. 2 cm long, sessile. Leaves 1–14, usually 5–34 cm long and 0.5–5 mm wide, erect, usually withering by flowering. Scape simple to 4-branched, usually 5–54 cm long; sterile bracts to 38 mm long. Flowers usually 1 per node; pedicels pendant to erect, 5–19 mm long, articulation absent or 1–4 mm from flower; bracts herbaceous, 3–10 mm long. Perianth segments 3–6 mm long, white. Sepals broadly elliptic, 2–3.5 mm wide, mucronate. Petals broadly elliptic, 2–5 mm wide. Anthers 0.5–1 mm long, recurved after shedding pollen; filaments 2–4 mm long, hirsute for 1–3 mm from anther, sometimes extended into 'tails' separating from filament below. Ovary subcylindrical, 1–1.8 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide; style 0.8–2.5 mm long. Capsule 5 mm long, 4 mm diam.; perianth persistent.

It is a temperate plant. It grows from sea level to alpine places. It grows in well-drained sandy soils. It needs a sheltered sunny position. It occurs in grassland and grassy woodlands. Tasmania Herbarium.

The root/corm is eaten, cooked.

Plants can be grown from seed. Seed can be transplanted. Plants can also be grown by division.