Typhonium jonesii A.Hay

Corm subglobose, c. 2.5 cm diam. Leaves several together; petiole to c. 13 cm long above ground, sheathing in subterranean part; blade deeply trilobed with linear segments to hastate to auriculate and then broadly ovate, rarely elliptic, in deeply lobed forms anterior lobe c. 14 × 1 cm and posterior lobes to 5.5 × 0.7 cm, in broad-leaved forms blade c. 7 × 3.5 cm and posterior lobes ±absent. Inflorescence in middle of leaf rosette; spathe base at or slightly below ground level, ovoid, c. 1 cm long, separated from limb by a rather weak constriction; limb narrowly lanceolate, c. 6–10 cm long, deep purple inside, greenish brown outside; spadix somewhat shorter than spathe, 5–9 cm long, sessile; female zone c. 2 mm long, with acroscopic pistils; sterile interstice 0.8–1 cm long, with lower 1/3–1/2 occupied by stout truncate neuter organs, the rest naked but for a tessellate pattern of flat rudiments; male zone c. 0.7 cm long, cylindric; appendix stipitate, narrowly conic, truncate at base, purple. Infructescence a hemispheric cluster of naked berries.

Grows in open eucalyptwoodland and plantations at low elevation. 

The tuber are baked in a fire then pounded and eaten.