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The first European to find Rafflesia was the ill-fated French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps.He was a member of a French scientific expedition to Asia and the Pacific, detained by the Dutch for three years on the Indonesian island of Java, where, in 1797, he collected a specimen, which was probably what is now known as R. patma.
Rafflesia (/ r ə ˈ f l iː z (i) ə,-ˈ f l iː ʒ (i) ə, r æ-/), [2] or stinking corpse lily, [3] is a genus of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. [4] 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.
Rafflesia philippensis is a parasitic plant species of the Rafflesiaceae family [1] that was named by Francisco Manuel Blanco in his Flora de Filipinas in 1845. The species is known only from a mountain located between the provinces of Laguna and Quezon , Luzon where it was first discovered.
Rafflesia schadenbergiana is a parasitic plant species in the family Rafflesiaceae, endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It has the largest flower among the Rafflesia species found in the Philippines, with a diameter of 52–80 cm (20–30 in). [1] [2] It has also the second largest flower in the genus after R. arnoldii.
Rafflesia consueloae was described and illustrated by John Michael M. Galindon and Perry S. Ong of the University of the Philippines Diliman and Edwino S. Fernando of University of the Philippines Los Baños. The species was named after Consuelo Rufino Lopez, the spouse of industrialist and conservationist, Oscar M. Lopez. [4] [5]
A transshipment port was subsequently established in Singapore for maritime trade between Europe and Asia. While Raffles was largely credited for the founding of contemporary Singapore, the early running of day-to-day operations was mostly done by William Farquhar , who served as the first Resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. [ 5 ]
Rafflesia verrucosa was first identified and characterized during a small mammal survey of Mt. Kampalili in eastern Mindanao in 2010. [2] R. verrucosa is the tenth species of Rafflesia found in the Philippines. [2] Rafflesia species have rare and unusual flowers known for
First known European to sail east past Malacca through modern Indonesia and the East Indies and the first european to reach the western tip of the Pacific Ocean. Francisco Serrão (died 1521) was a Portuguese explorer and a possible cousin of Ferdinand Magellan .