Typhonium alismifolium F.Muell.

Cormous to rhizomatous herb; corm subglobose, to c. 5 cm diam. or rhizome tuberous, creeping, c. 2–3 cm diam. Leaves several together; petiole c. 20–40 cm long, sheathing in lower 1/4–3/4; blades variable in size and shape, oblong-elliptic with base obtuse, to hastate to deeply trifid with linear lobes; anterior lobe c. 10–35 cm long; posterior lobes ±lacking to c. 6 cm long, distinctly shorter than anterior lobe. Inflorescence: spathe to c. 25 cm long, constricted c. 4 cm from base; limb narrowly to broadly ovate, spreading, then gradually tapering and acuminate, brownish purple; spadix generally subequalling spathe, occasionally reaching only c. 1/2 way along limb; female zone 0.5–1 cm long, then a c. 0.5 cm long zone of crowded filiform neuter organs, then a naked interstice c. 2 cm long; male zone c. 2 cm long; appendix narrowly conic, to 14 cm long, usually shortly to conspicuously stipitate, with base usually obtuse (to truncate). Infructescence within persistent spathe base.

Little data is available on habitats through the range, though in S.A.,it is recorded growing in braids of deep heavy soil in rocky, gypseous, seasonally dry creek beds, lined with ‘Eucalyptus coolabah’ and Acacia cambagei, in gibber landscape. 

The tuber is roasted and then crushed.