taxonID	type	description	language	source
5D16B807328C5DD5BAB30A90CF90306A.taxon	description	Fig. 1	en	Ojha, Rijan, Rai, Sudeep, Schneider, Harald (2025): Typhonium morangense (Araceae), a new species from the tropical forest of Eastern Nepal. PhytoKeys 252: 1-7, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.252.134081
5D16B807328C5DD5BAB30A90CF90306A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Typhonium morangense is morphologically closely related to T. inopinatum but it differs significantly from the latter species in having (1) smaller habit, 10 – 24 cm height (vs. 10 – 45 cm in T. inopinatum); (2) globose bulbils on top of petiole and leaves (vs. bulbils absent); (3) a sessile appendix (vs. subsessile); (4) thick, sickle-shaped staminodes (vs. filiform); (5) staminodes half curved downwards (vs. horizontally spread or, slightly curved); (6) ovary white (vs. yellowish) and (7) stigma pink (vs. yellow).	en	Ojha, Rijan, Rai, Sudeep, Schneider, Harald (2025): Typhonium morangense (Araceae), a new species from the tropical forest of Eastern Nepal. PhytoKeys 252: 1-7, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.252.134081
5D16B807328C5DD5BAB30A90CF90306A.taxon	description	Description. Seasonally dormant small herb, 10 – 24 cm tall; Tuber 0.8 – 2 cm long, 1 – 2 cm diameter, upright, sub-globose to sub-cylindrical with many filiform roots, without rhizomatous offsets. Leaves 2 – 5 together; petiole 10 – 23 cm long, light brown, grayish brown at base to light green at apex, globose black bulbil on the top of petiole. Leaf blade entire, hastate or shallowly or deeply tri-lobed or trifoliolate, glabrous, adaxially green, abaxially lighter green, 5 – 11 cm long, 2 – 7 cm wide when hastate, 10 – 12 cm when deeply trilobed, globose black bulbil on the basal margin of the leaf. Inflorescence solitary, usually 1 – 2 together, shorter than petiole; peduncle subterranean, white, 1.2 – 3.8 cm long; spathe 5.5 – 12 cm long, tube and limb separated by a constriction, grayish pink outside, inside dark reddish purple color; spathe tube ovoid to cylindric, 1 – 1.5 cm long, 1 – 1.7 cm diameter, outside grayish pink, inside reddish purple; spathe limb narrowly triangular, 4.5 – 10.5 cm long, 1 – 3 cm wide, smoothly tapering from below middle, apex acute; spadix 6.5 – 9.5 cm long, as long as spathe or slightly longer, sessile; female zone conical, 2 – 6 mm long, 4 – 5 mm diameter at the base, slightly pink, ovary unilocular, white with one dark yellow basal ovule, style absent, stigma sessile, disc shape with dark pink over the periphery; staminodes arranged in three whorls, free at the base, thick sickle-shaped, half-length curved downwards, yellow, glabrous, cover 1 / 3 th of the female zone; male zone 5 – 8 mm long, 3 – 5 mm diameter, cylindrical, stamens congested, thecae two, irregular, coral pink to sandy brown color with apical short slits or pores; appendix usually sessile, 2.7 – 7.7 cm long, narrowly elongated conical, dark reddish purple, base obliquely truncate, top acute, inside semisolid. Fruits ovoid to capsule-shaped, 0.2 – 0.3 cm diameter, 0.3 – 0.4 cm long, slightly light green at initial stages while turning white after maturity.	en	Ojha, Rijan, Rai, Sudeep, Schneider, Harald (2025): Typhonium morangense (Araceae), a new species from the tropical forest of Eastern Nepal. PhytoKeys 252: 1-7, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.252.134081
5D16B807328C5DD5BAB30A90CF90306A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet is based on the locality of its discovery, the Morang district of Eastern Nepal.	en	Ojha, Rijan, Rai, Sudeep, Schneider, Harald (2025): Typhonium morangense (Araceae), a new species from the tropical forest of Eastern Nepal. PhytoKeys 252: 1-7, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.252.134081
5D16B807328C5DD5BAB30A90CF90306A.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. The new species is known from Pathari Shanishchare municipality, Morang district, growing under the canopy of dense Shorea robusta Gaertn. forest at ca. 150 m asl. This species prefers moist shady floors under the dense canopy of forest.	en	Ojha, Rijan, Rai, Sudeep, Schneider, Harald (2025): Typhonium morangense (Araceae), a new species from the tropical forest of Eastern Nepal. PhytoKeys 252: 1-7, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.252.134081
