Common name: Black Lily
Typhonium brownii Schott APNI*
Description: Perennial herb, deciduous.
Leaves with lamina hastate, deeply 3-lobed to ± triangular, to c. 22 cm long, lobes of lamina 1–12 cm wide, glabrous, shining to dull green; petiole to c. 30 cm long.
Peduncle slender, mostly below ground. Spathe ± globose and c. 4.5 cm diam. in the lower convolute green part; limb opening wide, ± ovate, to c. 15 cm long, deep purple. Spadix shorter than the spathe, reaching above two-thirds of the length of the limb, naked for about 3 c. between the sterile and male flowers. Appendix conical, truncate at the base, deep purple-black.
Fruit c. 10 mm diam., reddish.
Distribution and occurrence: North from Menangle, inland to Capertee Valley and Wollomombi Falls.
Grows on rainforest margins, in sheltered gullies and along creek banks.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, NT, CT, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by A. Hay
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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