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Typhonium

Typhonium is a genus in the family Araceae native to eastern and southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. It is most often found growing in wooded areas.SpeciesTyphonium acetosella Gagnep. - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam Typhonium adnatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium albidinervium C.Z.Tang & H.Li - Guangdong, Hainan, Laos, Thailand Typhonium albispathum Bogner - Thailand Typhonium alismifolium F.Muell. - Queensland, Northern Territory Typhonium angustilobum F.Muell. - Queensland, New Guinea Typhonium bachmaense V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam Typhonium baoshanense Z.L.Dao & H.Li - Yunnan Typhonium blumei Nicolson & Sivad. - Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, much of China, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; naturalized in Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Borneo, Philippines, West Indies Typhonium bognerianum J.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium brownii Schott - Queensland, New South Wales Typhonium bulbiferum Dalzell - southern India Typhonium circinnatum Hett. & J.Mood - Vietnam Typhonium cochleare A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia Typhonium cordifolium S.Y.Hu - Thailand Typhonium digitatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium echinulatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium eliosurum (F.Muell. ex Benth.) O.D.Evans - New South Wales Typhonium filiforme Ridl. - Thailand, Malaysia Typhonium flagelliforme (G.Lodd.) Blume - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory Typhonium fultum Ridl. - Thailand, Malaysia Typhonium gagnepainii J.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand, Cambodia Typhonium gallowayi Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium glaucum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium griseum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium hayatae Sriboonma & J.Murata - Vietnam Typhonium huense Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam Typhonium hunanense H.Li & Z.Q.Liu - Hunan Typhonium inopinatum Prain - India, Myanmar, Thailand Typhonium jinpingense Z.L.Wang, H.Li & F.H.Bian - Yunnan Typhonium johnsonianum A.Hay & S.M.Taylor - Northern Territory of Australia Typhonium jonesii A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia Typhonium laoticum Gagnep. - Thailand, Laos Typhonium liliifolium F.Muell. ex Schott - Northern Territory, Western Australia Typhonium lineare Hett. & V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam Typhonium listeri Prain - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar Typhonium medusae Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium mirabile (A.Hay) A.Hay - Melville Island of Australia Typhonium neogracile J.Murata - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar Typhonium nudibaccatum A.Hay - Western Australia Typhonium orbifolium Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium pedatisectum Gage - Myanmar Typhonium pedunculatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium peltandroides A.Hay, M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett - Western Australia Typhonium penicillatum V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam Typhonium pottingeri Prain - Myanmar Typhonium praecox J.Murata - Myanmar Typhonium praetermissum A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia Typhonium pusillum Sookch., V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Thailand Typhonium reflexum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium roxburghii Schott - Taiwan, Yunnan, Bonin Islands, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, western Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea; naturalized in Western Australia, eastern Brazil, Tanzania Typhonium russell-smithii A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia Typhonium sagittariifolium Gagnep. - Thailand Typhonium saraburiensis Sookch., Hett. & J.Murata - Thailand Typhonium sinhabaedyae Hett. & A.Galloway - Thailand Typhonium smitinandii Sookch. & J.Murata - Thailand Typhonium stigmatilobatum V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam Typhonium subglobosum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium taylorii A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia Typhonium trifoliatum F.T.Wang & H.S.Lo ex H.Li, Y.Shiao & S.L.Tseng - Mongolia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi Typhonium trilobatum (L.) Schott - southern China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina; naturalized in Windward Islands, Ivory Coast, Borneo, Philippines Typhonium tubispathum Hett. & A.Galloway - Thailand Typhonium varians Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand Typhonium vermiforme V.D.Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam Typhonium violifolium Gagnep. - Myanmar, Thailand Typhonium watanabei J.Murata, Sookch. & Hett. - Thailand Typhonium weipanum A.Hay - Queensland Typhonium wilbertii A.Hay - Queensland

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Typhonium
Typhonium roxburghii1
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Areae
Genus: Typhonium
Schott
Synonyms2
  • Desmesia Raf.
  • Heterostalis (Schott) Schott
  • Jaimenostia Guinea & Gómez Mor.
  • Lazarum A.Hay

Typhonium is a genus in the family Araceae native to eastern and southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia.234 It is most often found growing in wooded areas.5

Species2
  • Typhonium acetosella Gagnep. - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Typhonium adnatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium albidinervium C.Z.Tang & H.Li - Guangdong, Hainan, Laos, Thailand
  • Typhonium albispathum Bogner - Thailand
  • Typhonium alismifolium F.Muell. - Queensland, Northern Territory
  • Typhonium angustilobum F.Muell. - Queensland, New Guinea
  • Typhonium bachmaense V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
  • Typhonium baoshanense Z.L.Dao & H.Li - Yunnan
  • Typhonium blumei Nicolson & Sivad. - Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, much of China, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; naturalized in Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Borneo, Philippines, West Indies
  • Typhonium bognerianum J.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium brownii Schott - Queensland, New South Wales
  • Typhonium bulbiferum Dalzell - southern India
  • Typhonium circinnatum Hett. & J.Mood - Vietnam
  • Typhonium cochleare A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
  • Typhonium cordifolium S.Y.Hu - Thailand
  • Typhonium digitatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium echinulatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium eliosurum (F.Muell. ex Benth.) O.D.Evans - New South Wales
  • Typhonium filiforme Ridl. - Thailand, Malaysia
  • Typhonium flagelliforme (G.Lodd.) Blume - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory
  • Typhonium fultum Ridl. - Thailand, Malaysia
  • Typhonium gagnepainii J.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand, Cambodia
  • Typhonium gallowayi Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium glaucum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium griseum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium hayatae Sriboonma & J.Murata - Vietnam
  • Typhonium huense Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam
  • Typhonium hunanense H.Li & Z.Q.Liu - Hunan
  • Typhonium inopinatum Prain - India, Myanmar, Thailand
  • Typhonium jinpingense Z.L.Wang, H.Li & F.H.Bian - Yunnan
  • Typhonium johnsonianum A.Hay & S.M.Taylor - Northern Territory of Australia
  • Typhonium jonesii A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
  • Typhonium laoticum Gagnep. - Thailand, Laos
  • Typhonium liliifolium F.Muell. ex Schott - Northern Territory, Western Australia
  • Typhonium lineare Hett. & V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
  • Typhonium listeri Prain - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
  • Typhonium medusae Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium mirabile (A.Hay) A.Hay - Melville Island of Australia
  • Typhonium neogracile J.Murata - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
  • Typhonium nudibaccatum A.Hay - Western Australia
  • Typhonium orbifolium Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium pedatisectum Gage - Myanmar
  • Typhonium pedunculatum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium peltandroides A.Hay, M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett - Western Australia
  • Typhonium penicillatum V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
  • Typhonium pottingeri Prain - Myanmar
  • Typhonium praecox J.Murata - Myanmar
  • Typhonium praetermissum A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
  • Typhonium pusillum Sookch., V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Thailand
  • Typhonium reflexum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium roxburghii Schott - Taiwan, Yunnan, Bonin Islands, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, western Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea; naturalized in Western Australia, eastern Brazil, Tanzania
  • Typhonium russell-smithii A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
  • Typhonium sagittariifolium Gagnep. - Thailand
  • Typhonium saraburiensis Sookch., Hett. & J.Murata - Thailand
  • Typhonium sinhabaedyae Hett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
  • Typhonium smitinandii Sookch. & J.Murata - Thailand
  • Typhonium stigmatilobatum V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
  • Typhonium subglobosum Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium taylorii A.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
  • Typhonium trifoliatum F.T.Wang & H.S.Lo ex H.Li, Y.Shiao & S.L.Tseng - Mongolia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi
  • Typhonium trilobatum (L.) Schott - southern China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina; naturalized in Windward Islands, Ivory Coast, Borneo, Philippines
  • Typhonium tubispathum Hett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
  • Typhonium varians Hett. & Sookch. - Thailand
  • Typhonium vermiforme V.D.Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam
  • Typhonium violifolium Gagnep . - Myanmar, Thailand
  • Typhonium watanabei J.Murata, Sookch. & Hett. - Thailand
  • Typhonium weipanum A.Hay - Queensland
  • Typhonium wilbertii A.Hay - Queensland
References

References

  1. Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas (1880)
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. 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.
  4. Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 34, 犁头尖属 li tou jian shu, Typhonium Schott, Wiener Z. Kunst. 1829: 732. 1829.
  5. Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.