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Araceae

Theriophonum

Theriophonum dalzellii Schott

First published in Aroideae 1: 15 (1853)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is W. & S. India. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Taxonomy

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Native to:

India

Homotypic Synonyms

Tapinocarpus indicus Dalzell in Bombay Fl.: 258 (1861), nom. superfl.
Theriophonum indicum Engl. in Pflanzenr., IV, 23F: 107 (1920), nom. illeg.

Heterotypic Synonyms

Tapinocarpus dalzellii Schott in Gen. Aroid.: t. 15 (1858)
Theriophonum uniseriatum Blatt. & McCann in J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35: 25 (1931)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Sasikala, K., Vajravelu, E. & Daniel, P. (2019). Fascicles of Flora of India 29: 1-357. Botanical Survey of India, New Delhi.
Sivadasan, M., Jaleel, V. A., Alfarhan, A.H. & Lakshminarasimhan, P. (2014). Taxonomic identity of Theriophonum danielii and T. manickamii (Araceae). Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 21: 63-70.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0