rafflesia flowers
Rafflesia
Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowering plants. It contains approximately 28 species (including four incompletely characterized species as recognized by Willem Meijer in 1997), all found in Southeast Asia, mainly in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. It was first discovered by Louis Deschamps in Java between 1791 and 1794, but his notes and illustrations, seized by the British in 1803, were not available to western science until 1861. It was later found in the...
41 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Rafflesia keithii
speciesRafflesia keithii
Rafflesia pricei
speciesRafflesia pricei
Rafflesia kerrii
speciesRafflesia kerrii
Rafflesia tuan-mudae
speciesRafflesia tuan-mudae
Rafflesia lagascae
speciesRafflesia lagascae
Arnold's rafflesia
speciesRafflesia arnoldi
Rafflesia cantleyi
speciesRafflesia cantleyi
Rafflesia horsfieldii
speciesRafflesia horsfieldii
Rafflesia speciosa
speciesRafflesia speciosa
Rafflesia mira
speciesRafflesia mira
Rafflesia micropylora
speciesRafflesia micropylora
Rafflesia kemumu
speciesRafflesia kemumu
Rafflesia lobata
speciesRafflesia lobata
Rafflesia hasseltii
speciesRafflesia hasseltii
Rafflesia tiomanensis
speciesRafflesia tiomanensis
Rafflesia rochussenii
speciesRafflesia rochussenii
Rafflesia meijeri
speciesRafflesia meijeri
Rafflesia schadenbergiana
speciesRafflesia schadenbergiana
Rafflesia tengku-adlinii
speciesRafflesia tengku-adlinii
Rafflesia baletei
speciesRafflesia baletei
Rafflesia consueloae
speciesRafflesia consueloae
Rafflesia verrucosa
speciesRafflesia verrucosa
Rafflesia gadutensis
speciesRafflesia gadutensis
Rafflesia philippensis
speciesRafflesia philippensis
Rafflesia lawangensis
speciesRafflesia lawangensis
Rafflesia zollingeriana
speciesRafflesia zollingeriana
Rafflesia banaoana
speciesRafflesia banaoana
Rafflesia mixta
speciesRafflesia mixta
Rafflesia bengkuluensis
speciesRafflesia bengkuluensis
Rafflesia aurantia
speciesRafflesia aurantia
Rafflesia leonardi
speciesRafflesia leonardi
Rafflesia su-meiae
speciesRafflesia su-meiae
Rafflesia parvimaculata
speciesRafflesia parvimaculata
Rafflesia azlanii
speciesRafflesia azlanii
Rafflesia borneensis
speciesRafflesia borneensis
Rafflesia camarinensis
speciesRafflesia camarinensis
Rafflesia ciliata
speciesRafflesia ciliata
Rafflesia tuanku-halimii
speciesRafflesia tuanku-halimii
Rafflesia witkampii
speciesRafflesia witkampii
Rafflesia manillana
speciesRafflesia manillana
Rafflesia sharifah-hapsahiae
speciesRafflesia sharifah-hapsahiae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 120860.