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    Description

    The plant has no stems, leaves or roots. It is a holoparasite of vines in the genus Tetrastigma (a plant in the Vitaceae, the grape vine family), spreading its absorptive organ, the haustorium, inside the tissue of the vine. T… See more

    Names

    In Indonesian and Malaysian, it is known as padma. The species R. arnoldii is known as padma raksasa ("giant padma"). In Javanese it is called patma. In Malay, the 'normal' R. hasseltii is vernacularly known as pakma, … See more

    Taxonomy

    Robert Brown introduced the genus Rafflesia to the wider scientific world in a presentation before the Linnean Society of London in June 1820, but his scientific paper on the subject was only published in late 1821. … See more

    Evolution and phylogeny

    Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of Rafflesia with other angiosperm mtDNA indicated this parasite evolved from photosynthetic plants of the order Malpighiales. Another 2004 study confirmed t… See more

     
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