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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 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.
Leonard Co was the founding president of the Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society. [2] He is credited for discovering eight new species of plants. [6] Aside from these, two species of Philippine endemic plants have been named in his honor: the Mycaranthes leonardi orchid [6] and the Rafflesia leonardi, a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia endemic to the Philippines and ...
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 (/ 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 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 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 PAWD says the Philippines has the highest density of Rafflesia in the world relative to land area. Unfortunately, the lowland rainforest it calls home is under siege from deforestation and conversion to other uses. The first species identified as Rafflesia manillana Teschem was found in Basey, Samar in 1841.