Typhonium jonesii
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Family Araceae
Taxonomy: Typhonium jonesii A.Hay
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (8), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (4), SPRAT_2025_2 (10), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 32 records in 7 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_type (categorical): berry (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 140 mm (140-140 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- petiole_length (numerical): 13 cm (13-13 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); linear (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): auriculate (1); hastate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (2); lobed_deep (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): geophyte (2); herb (2) [sources: NTH_2022; SPRAT_2025_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): drought_deciduous (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): bulb (1); corm (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
- storage_organ (categorical): corm (1); stem_tuber (1); tuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SPRAT_2025_2]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.41 m (0.41-0.41 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRAT_2025_2 | 10 | 10 | F. D. of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water. Species Profile and Threats Database. 2025. url: https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. |
| ABRS_2023 | 8 | 8 | Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au. |
| NTH_2023 | 4 | 4 | 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/. |
| 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. |
| 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/. |
| 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. |