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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Typhonium eliosurum
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Typhonium
Species:
T. eliosurum
Binomial name
Typhonium eliosurum
(F.Muell. ex Benth.) O.D.Evans
Synonyms
  • Typhonium brownii var. eliosurum F.Muell. ex Benth.

Typhonium eliosurum is a species of plant in the arum family that is endemic to Australia .

Description

The species is a deciduous, geophytic, perennial herb, which resprouts annually from a rhizome up to 12 cm long and 2 cm in diameter. The deeply trilobed to triangular leaves are borne on stalks up to 40 cm long. The inflorescence, which is said to smell of pig faeces, is enclosed in a 22 cm long spathe, greenish on the outside and purplish-brown on the inside. The fruits are reddish and about 10 cm in diameter. Flowering takes place from late spring to early summer.[1][2]

Distribution and habitat

The species is known from the Central Coast and South Coast regions of New South Wales, where it grows in damp areas near rainforest and on the banks of creeks.[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q15330737 entry