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Rafflesia
Sign in to saveRafflesia (), or stinking corpse lily, is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in the world. Plants of the World Online lists up to 41 species from this genus; all of them are found in Southeast Asia.
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Rafflesia is a genus of plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. It belongs to the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, and order Malpighiales. The genus is named after Thomas Stamford Raffles. Its taxonomic type is Rafflesia arnoldi, and it produces fruit of the berry type.
The genus is native to Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, the Philippines, Sumatera, and Thailand. Records from iDigBio list occurrences in Madagascar, Brasil, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The species has 966 recorded occurrences and 32 records with 12 media items held by institutions including MO, CEPLAC, MNHN, NY, and A.
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Species
Rafflesia
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalpighiales
- FamilyRafflesiaceae
大花草屬（学名：Rafflesia）又名大王花属、莱佛士花属、屍花属，是世界上最大的一種花。生長于马来半岛及婆羅洲、蘇門答臘等島嶼。大花草無根無莖，是一種寄生植物，靠吸收葡萄科植物的養分為生。其直徑可達1.4米之長。大花草開花時奇臭無比，發出腐肉味的臭氣，靠吸引廁蠅與甲蟲為其傳粉。 其中最大的一种大花草为阿諾爾特大花草，其花直径能够达到3尺之長。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 32
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Rafflesiaceae
- Collections
- MO, CEPLAC, MNHN, NY, A, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Brasil, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, OcéAnie, Philippines
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Rafflesiaceae
- Named after
- Thomas Stamford Raffles
- Image
- Rafflesia arnoldii Bengkulu 01.jpg
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- Category:Rafflesia
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- Rafflesia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Rafflesia
- taxon common name
- rafflesiat
- has fruit type
- berry
- taxonomic type
- Rafflesia arnoldi
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Description
- Names
- Taxonomy
- Evolution and phylogeny
- Accepted species
- Other names
- Loss of the chloroplast genome
- Distribution
- Malay Peninsula
- Malaysia
- Thailand
- Greater Sunda Islands
- Sumatra
- Java
- Borneo
- The Philippine Archipelago
- Visayas
- Mindanao species
- Ecology
- Uses
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Rafflesia (), or stinking corpse lily, is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. The species have enormous flowers, the buds rising from the ground or directly from the lower stems of their host plants; one species has the largest flower in the world. Plants of the World Online lists up to 41 species from this genus; all of them are found in Southeast Asia.
Western Europeans first learned about plants of this genus from French surgeon and naturalist Louis Deschamps when he was in Java between 1791 and 1794; but his notes and illustrations were seized by the British in 1798 and were not available to Western scientists until 1861. The first British person to see one was Joseph Arnold in 1818, in the Indonesia rainforest in Bengkulu, Sumatra, after a Malay servant working for him discovered a flower and pointed it out to him. The flower, and the genus, was later named after Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition and the founder of the British colony of Singapore.
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