Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

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Family Araceae

Taxonomy: Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (Dennst.) Nicolson

Synonyms: 10 (APC 2026-07-30)

Amorphophallus campanulatus Blume ex Decne. (taxonomic synonym)
Amorphophallus campanulatus Blume ex Decne. f. campanulatus (taxonomic synonym)
Amorphophallus campanulatus Blume ex Decne. var. campanulatus (taxonomic synonym)
Amorphophallus campanulatus f. darnleyensis F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Amorphophallus campanulatus var. australasica Maiden (taxonomic synonym)
Amorphophallus campanulatus var. australasicus Maiden (taxonomic synonym)
Amorphophalus campanulatus K.A.W.Williams (taxonomic synonym)
Arum campanulatum Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)
Dracontium paeoniaefolium Dennst. (nomenclatural synonym)
Dracontium paeoniifolium Dennst. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Amorphophallus variabilis Blume (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (7), Brock_1993 (6), Cooper_2013 (9), Crowley_2007 (2), NTH_2022 (3), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 19 traits from 39 records in 10 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): resprouts (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (15-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): berry (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): red (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1); simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): geophyte (2); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2); woody (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyy (1); yyynnnnnnnyy (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
storage_organ (categorical): corm (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
bud_bank_location (categorical): fleshy_underground_organ (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.5 m (1.5-1.5 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Cooper_2013	8	9	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
ABRS_2023	6	7	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Brock_1993	6	6	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Sjostrom_2006	4	4	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_2022	3	3	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_2011	2	2	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.