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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 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 manillana is a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia. It is endemic to the Philippines. [1] This species was named after the city of Manila. The most recent discussion of the taxonomy of this species can be found in this citation [2] Rafflesia panchoana, described in 2007, [3] is considered a heterotypic synonym of R ...
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.
William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; [1] died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, [2] privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. [3]
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
Rafflesia leonardi is a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia. It is endemic to the Philippines. [3] Rafflesia banaoana is considered to be a synonym by some sources, [2] but is recognized as a separate species by others. [4] R. leonardi is the fourth Rafflesia species found in Luzon and the eighth from the Philippines.
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.