AusTraits

Typhonium mirabile

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Family Araceae

Taxonomy: Typhonium mirabile (A.Hay) A.Hay

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Lazarum mirabile A.Hay (basionym)

Distribution (APC): NT

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (2), ABRS_2023 (9), NTH_2022 (2), NTH_2023 (3), SPRAT_2025_2 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 24 traits from 36 records in 8 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
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 4 mm (4-4 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • 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): 17.38 mm (4.5-25 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 7.5 mm (6-9 mm) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): cordate (1); elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); orbicular (1); widely_ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): lobed (1) [sources: ABRS_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 (1); herb (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SPRAT_2025_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): drought_deciduous (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
  • storage_organ (categorical): corm (1); stem_tuber (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): stem_tuber (1) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.02 m (0.02-0.02 m) [sources: SPRAT_2025_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SPRAT_2025_21113F. 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_202399Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Sjostrom_200644A. 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_202333D. 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/.
ABRS_202222Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202222D. 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_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.