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Illustration of Rhizanthes (then known as Brugmansia), a Rafflesiaceae species from Der Bau und die Eigenschaften der Pflanzen (1913).. The Rafflesiaceae are a family of rare parasitic plants comprising 36 species in 3 genera found in the tropical forests of east and southeast Asia, including Rafflesia arnoldii, which has the largest flowers of all plants.
Tetrastigma is a genus of plants in the grape family, Vitaceae. The plants are lianas that climb with tendrils and have palmately compound leaves. Plants are dioecious , with separate male and female plants; female flowers are characterized by their four-lobed stigmas. [ 2 ]
Replica of Rafflesia flower displayed in National Museum of Natural History in Manila.. The plant has no stems, leaves or roots. It is a holoparasite of vines in the genus Tetrastigma (a plant in the Vitaceae, the grape vine family), spreading its absorptive organ, the haustorium, inside the tissue of the vine. [8]
Tetrastigma leucostaphylum, the Indian chestnut vine, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Vitaceae. It is native to Sri Lanka , [ 3 ] India, Nepal and South East Asia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
It is an endoparasite of vines in the genus Tetrastigma , spreading its root-like haustoria inside the tissue of the vine. The only part of the plant that can be seen outside the host vine is the five-petaled flower. Some species, such as Rafflesia arnoldii, the flower may be over 100 cm in diameter, and weigh up to 10 kg.
Rafflesia tuan-mudae is a member of the Rafflesiaceae family. It lives as a parasite within the Tetrastigma vines. The enormous flowers may reach over 1 m in diameter. [1] The buds normally emerge where the vine is growing along the ground, unlike some of the other Rafflesia species whose buds can emerge from vines hanging in the air.
A regular vine or R-vine on n variables is a vine in which two edges in tree j are joined by an edge in tree j + 1 only if these edges share a common node, j = 1, ..., n − 2. The nodes in the first tree are univariate random variables. The edges are constraints or conditional constraints explained as follows.
This strange plant is a holoparasite of the roots of the jungle lianas in the genus Tetrastigma, a plant related to the grape vine. [5] In the Sundanese language the host vine Tetrastigma papillosum is known as susuan, thus the name for Rhizanthes zippelii is perut susuan, the 'belly of susuan'. [3]