title: Typhonium peltandroides
text: # Typhonium peltandroides
  
  Typhonium peltandroides is a species of plant in the arum family that is endemic to Australia.
  
  ## Etymology
  
  The specific epithet peltandroides alludes to the similarity of the leaf venation to that of the American aroid genus Peltandra.
  
  ## Description
  
  The species is a deciduous geophytic, perennial herb, which resprouts annually from a hemispherical corm about 5 cm in diameter. The oval leaves are 14–34 cm long by 7–11.7 cm wide, on a 15–50 cm long stalk. The flower is enclosed in a spathe, green on the outside, deep reddish-purple on the inside, appearing in late December and January. Fruiting occurs from mid-January to March.
  
  ## Distribution and habitat
  
  The species is known only from the tropical Northern Kimberley IBRA bioregion of north-west Western Australia, where the type specimen was collected from Grevillea Gorge in the Synnott Range. There it grows in shallow sandy soil on a sandstone substrate, in rainforest thickets or with Triodia grasses on rock ledges along the sides of the gorge.
  
  