On some families of arbitrarily vertex decomposable spiders

A graph G of order n is called arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for each sequence (n1, . . . , nk) of positive integers such that [formula], there exists a partition (V1, . . . , Vk) of the vertex set of G such that for every i ∈ {1, . . . , k} the set Vi induces a connected subgraph of G on ni vertices. A spider is a tree with one vertex of degree at least 3. We characterize two families of arbitrarily vertex decomposable spiders which are homeomorphic to stars with at most four hanging edges.