Rafflesia is the official state flower of Indonesia, the Sabah state in Malaysia, and of the Surat Thani Province, Thailand.

A more recent study found Rafflesia and its relatives to be embedded within the family Euphorbiaceae, which is surprising, as members of that family typically have very small flowers.

The Rafflesia Forest Reserve near Tambunan, 30 kilometres away from Kota Kinabalu, is also within the Crocker Range National Park boundary.

The mountain is a Natural Reserve where unique flora such as the Rafflesia Tuan Mudae grows ;

It is perhaps most famous for the Bua Phut ( Rafflesia kerrii ) flower which grows within the park.

Rafflesia arnoldii is a member of the genus Rafflesia.

Rafflesia arnoldii () is one of the three national flowers in Indonesia, the other two being the white jasmine and moon orchid.

Rafflesia lacks any observable leaves, stems or even roots, yet is still considered a vascular plant.

Perhaps the only part of Rafflesia that is identifiable as distinctly plant-like are the flowers ; although, even these are unusual since they attain massive proportions, have a reddish-brown coloration and stink of rotting flesh, which is why it was nicknamed the " corpse flower ".

Rafflesia arnoldii is rare and fairly hard to locate.

When Rafflesia is ready to reproduce, a tiny bud forms on the outside of the root or stem and develops over a period of a year.

Rafflesia kerrii is a member of the genus Rafflesia.

Baungon is home to two of the World's rarest flowers: Rafflesia and Amorphophallus Paeoniifolius.

The Rafflesia that grew in Baungon is identified by one botanist, Ulysses Ferreras, as the thought extinct Rafflesia Schadenbergiana Goppert.

It is a case of lost and found Rafflesia, found again in Bukidnon after 126 years.

Outside of Tambunan is the Rafflesia Forest Reserve, devoted to the world's largest flower, the Rafflesia.

* Rafflesia, genus which contains the species Rafflesia arnoldii, the largest single flower in the world

Both Rafflesia and Amorphophallus are flowering plants, but they are only distantly related.

Rafflesia arnoldii has the largest " single " flower of any flowering plant, at least in terms of weight.

In case the next bloom of Rafflesia will be one hundred years away, may our children see its flowering in a protected forest.

Comparison of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) sequences of Rafflesia with other angiosperm mtDNA indicated this parasite evolved from photosynthetic plants of the order Malpighiales.

His report received wide attention among the botanists and general public, comparable only to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely Victoria amazonica and Rafflesia arnoldii.

The genera Cyrillopsis ( Ixonanthaceae ), Centroplacus ( Centroplacaceae ), Bhesa ( Centroplacaceae ), Aneulophus ( Erythroxylaceae ), Ploiarium ( Bonnetiaceae ), Trichostephanus ( Samydaceae ), Sapria ( Rafflesiaceae ), Rhizanthes ( Rafflesiaceae ), and Rafflesia ( Rafflesiaceae ) had been either added or confirmed as members of Malpighiales by the end of 2009.

Among other things, they eat Rafflesia fruit.

Rafflesia was found in the Indonesian rain forest by an Indonesian guide working for Dr. Joseph Arnold in 1818, and named after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the leader of the expedition.

In some species, such as Rafflesia arnoldii, the flower may be over in diameter, and weigh up to.

The name " corpse flower " applied to Rafflesia can be confusing because this common name also refers to the titan arum ( Amorphophallus titanum ) of the family Araceae.

Species native to Malaysia include Rafflesia pricei, Rafflesia tengku-adlinii, Rafflesia keithii, and Rafflesia arnoldii.

Since 2002, a tremendous amount of activity by Filipino scientists has resulted in the discovery and naming several new species of Rafflesia.

A Rafflesia was found in the mountains of Antique Province that differed from any previously described.

Another Rafflesia was discovered in the Philippines by Drs.

It was named Rafflesia mira by Fernando and Ong ( 2005.

Sakpaw in the Central Panay mountain range in April 2005, Renee Galang discovered a previously undescribed Rafflesia.

Danny Balete collected a previously undescribed species of Rafflesia in 1991 in the Bicol Region of southern Luzon.

File: Rafflesia at Gunung Tahan. jpg | Rafflesia spotted near Wray's Camp, on the way to down to Kuala Teku

The only example of this was the huge Crossbone Vanguard mobile armour Rafflesia, in which the pilot, " Iron Mask " Carozzo, had numerous fiber optic neural receptors connected from his helmet to the mobile armour control.

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