Arthropodium fimbriatum

Location & distribution maps

Common name:         Nodding Chocolate Lily

Conservation status: . . .

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• Inflorescence racemose or paniculately 3-branched, 15–100 cm long with lanceolate bracts at the base of each branch

• Flowers 2–6 per node, usually chocolate-scented

• Pedicels erect to nodding, 5–15 mm long, articulate 1–6 mm from flower, becoming nodding and ± parallel to axis in fruit; bracts 2.5–15 mm long

• Tepals 5–15 mm long, usually ± purple; outer tepals 2.5–4 mm wide; inner tepals 4–6 mm wide

• Anthers 3.5–5 mm long, purple; appendages 2, 0.3–1.5 mm long, usually purple

• Filaments 2–4 mm long, geniculate in upper part

• Style 4–7 mm long

• Flowering: September–February

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Fruit:                         

• Capsule ± cylindrical, c. 5–7 mm long

• Enclosed by persistent perianth

Leaves:         

• 2–10, linear, 5–35 cm long, usually 1–4 mm wide

• Surrounded by leaf fibres

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

• Fibrous roots to 9 cm long ending in fusiform tubers

Habit:        

• Erect herb to ~1 m high

Habitat:   

• Grows in sclerophyll forest, woodland and grassland, on soils ranging from clays to sands

Distribution:                  

• Widespread

• NSW subdivisions: CC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, SFWP

• Other Australian states: Qld Vic. W.A. S.A.

Additional notes:     

• Formerly recognised as Dichopogon fimbriatus (R.Br.) J.F.Macbr.

Sources of information:

•  https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Arthropodium~fimbriatum (2024)