Araceae
Typhonium

Typhonium blumei Nicolson & Sivad.

First published in Blumea 27: 494 (1981)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. China to Indo-China, Nansei-shoto to Taiwan. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

General Description
Underground part a broad and flattened rhizome, to 5 × 2.5cm, to 1.8cm high, producing numerous small, fusiform offsets. Petiole green, 20–40cm; leaf blade pale green abaxially, green adaxially, entire, cordate-hastate, ovate or deltoid in outline, 7–10 × 7–9cm, terminal lobe ovate, basal lobes ovate to deltoid. Inflorescence appearing alongside leaves; peduncle pale green, 9–11cm. Spathe convolute at base, green, ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.6–4cm × 8–15mm, distinctly constricted at apex; limb spreading, inside greenish purple to dark purple, ovate, 12–18 × 4–5cm, long cuspidate. Spadix erect, subequaling spathe; female zone conic, 1.5–3mm, 3–4mm in diam. at base; ovary cream-colored; stigma sessile, reddish or pale pinkish; sterile zone 1.7–4cm, proximal 7–8mm covered with densely congested staminodes, rest naked, terete; staminodes ascending or variously curved, yellow or basal part reddish, narrowly fusiform, ca. 4mm; male zone 4–9mm; stamens yellow, sub-sessile; anthers orange; appendix narrowly conic, 10–13cm, proximally corrugate, distally smooth, tapering to sharply acute apex, base truncate or obliquely truncate, usually with a stipe 5–7mm. 2n = 52.
Phenology
Fl. May–Jul.
Habitat
Croplands, grasslands, between rocks.
Vernacular
li tou jian
[CATE]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sources

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