Typhonium trilobatum

<p>Widespread from India (type and type of T. orixense) to S. China and south through Thailand (type of T. siamense), Peninsular Malaysia (type of T. triste) as far as Singapore. For a detailed discussion of typifications, see Nicolson & Sivadasan, Blumea 27: 483–497. 1981.</p>

Sumber: CATE Araceae

<p>Evergreen herb to 0.85 m tall. Subterranean stem a rhizome, 3–5 ×1.5–2 cm, light brown outside. Cataphylls sheathing separately petiole and peduncle, green with faint pink mottling; petiole 45–85 ×1–2 cm, olive-green with pink mottling and dark carmine stripes; leaf blade pedate; leaflets 5, elliptic, to 25 × 9 cm, margins entire, apex acuminate, ending in an arista to 3 cm long; central leaflet base cuneate, with a petiolule to 4 cm long; lateral leaflets asymmetrical, decreasing a little in size outwards, base convex, shortly petiolulate, glossy green with barely impressed veins above, underside paler. Inflorescence more or less held at foliage level; peduncle to 0.75 m long, thin, green with dark green stripes; spathe tube slightly funnel-shaped, 6–7 × ca 1 cm at the base, pale green outside and white inside, white at the base; spathe mouth margins with broad, yellow-green auricles, ca 2 cm wide; spathe limb ovate, 8–9 × 3–4 cm in the middle, glossy yellow-green, acuminate, ending in a filiform tip to 2 cm long; spadix appendix slightly exserted from the tube, erect, subcylindrical, white-green, with a rounded, even or slightly rugose apex, ca 4 cm long × 3.5 mm wide, sessile, often with a few, short carmine or green bristles above the fertile part; fertile zone staminate or bisexual, ca 4 cm long; staminate flowers 3–4 androus, subsessile, anthers cream, carmine at the top; thecae dehiscing by an oblong pore; pistillate flowers densely arranged; ovaries ovoid, pale green; stigma subsessile, capitate. Infructescence unknown.</p>

Sumber: CATE Araceae

<p>Underground part a short, tuberous rhizome, subglobose or subcylindric, producing few annual offsets or splitting up. Petiole green or variously flushed with purple, 25–40cm; leaf blade cordate-ovate in outline, usually deeply 3-lobed, rarely 5-lobed; central lobe ovate, 10–15 × 6–11cm, acuminate, sometimes mucronate; lateral lobes 8–13cm. Inflorescence appearing after leaves; peduncle 5–10cm, elongating in fruit. Spathe convolute at base, outside green, inside green, to 30cm, ovoid or ellipsoid, 2.5–3.5 × 1–1.5cm, constricted at apex; limb spreading, outside green, inside dark purple to reddish purple, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 15 × 5–8cm, apex acuminate. Spadix shorter than spathe; female zone slightly conic, 7–10mm; ovary yellowish green; stigma sessile, dark or mid-purple, disciform; sterile zone 2–3cm, proximal half densely covered with staminodes, distal half naked; staminodes strongly curled but mostly directed downward and covering most of female zone, filiform, 7–12mm; male zone 1.5–2cm; stamens pink; appendix shortly stipitate, glossy purple or reddish, narrowly conic, 5–12cm × 4–7mm, base truncate, apex acute or subacute. Fruiting zone with spathe remaining; berries at first green with purple spots, white when mature, ellipsoid, 1- or 2-seeded. </p>

Sumber: CATE Araceae

<p>Ecology. —Ruderal; low altitudes.</p>

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<p>Tropical secondary forests, thickets, grasslands, roadsides.</p>

Sumber: CATE Araceae

" Habitat in Zeylona. " RCN: 6993.

Sumber: Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A)