Typhonium alismifolium F.Muell.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(65): 186. Type: Ad sinum Rockinghams Bay in locis rupestribus montis Macallisteri; Dallachy.

Cormous herb. Corm up to 5 cm diam.

Leaves up to 4 together, petiole 10-70 cm long, sheathing in the lower ¼-¾, lamina oblong-elliptic with the base obtuse to hastate to deeply trifid with linear lobes.

Spathe up to 25 cm long with the lower part convolute for up to 4 cm, limb usually rather narrowly ovate, spreading and gradually tapering, brownish-purple; spadix slightly shorter than spathe, female in the lower 0.5-1 cm, then a ca. 0.5 cm long zone of crowded filiform sterile organs, then a naked zone ca. 2 cm long; male zone ca. 2 x 0.8 cm, male flowers 2- or -3 staminate; appendix stipitate with obtuse base and very narrowly conical.

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Occurs in NT and NEQ. Grows in dry rainforest and deciduous vine forest.