title: Typhonium alismifolium
text: # Typhonium alismifolium
  
  Typhonium alismifolium is a species of plant in the arum family that is endemic to Australia.
  
  ## Description
  
  The species is a deciduous, geophytic, perennial herb, which resprouts annually from a corm about 5 cm in diameter. The oval to trilobed leaves are borne on 10–70 cm long stalks. The flower is enclosed in a 25 cm long spathe, green on the outside, deep brownish-purple on the inside.
  
  ## Distribution and habitat
  
  The species is known from the Northern Territory as well as north-eastern Queensland, where it grows in dry rainforest and deciduous vine forest.
  
  