Typhonium russell-smithii
Typhonium russell-smithii (A. Hay, 1993) is a plant in the arum family (Araceae) that is found only in Australia. The name honours ecologist Jeremy Russell-Smith for his work on the flora of the Top End in the Northern Territory. It is a deciduous, geophytic perennial herb that grows from a small corm about 3 cm in diameter. Its leaves are deeply and narrowly trilobed. The flower is enclosed in a spathe about 6.5 cm long. This plant is known only from Cannon Hill in Kakadu National Park, in the tropical Top End of the Northern Territory, where the first specimen was collected from sandy colluvial soils in a eucalypt forest at the base of the Kakadu escarpment.
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