Typhonium watanabei J.Murata, Sookch. & Hett.

Typhonium watanabei is easily recognised by its peculiar pedate leaves, of which all lobes are similar in size (whether linear or elliptic) and not diminishing in length from the centre of the leaf to the outer parts as in most other pedately leaved species. Typhonium watanabei seems similar to the insufficiently known T. pedatisectum Gage ex Engl. of Burma, according to the protologue of the latter but the inflorescence differs at least in size (spathe ca 15 cm long in T. pedatisectum). The inflorescence of T. watanabei seems to come close to that of T. hunanense H. Li & Z.Q. Liu (China) but the staminodes are not curled as in the latter.