Rafflesia arnoldii Rafflesia arnoldii Rafflesia arnoldii, commonly called the corpse lily, is a species of flowering plant in the parasitic genus "Rafflesia". It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on Earth. It has a very strong and unpleasant odour of decaying flesh, earning it the nickname "corpse flower". It is endemic to the rainforests of Sumatra and possibly Borneo. Although there are some plants with larger flowering organs like the titan arum ("Amorphophallus titanum") and talipot palm ("Corypha umbraculifera"), those are technically clusters of many flowers. "Rafflesia arnoldii" (), also called Kerubut (Devil's Betelnut Box), is one of the three
Mount Kinabalu The orchids are the best-known example with over 800 species including some of the highly valued "Paphiopedilum" slipper orchids, but there are also over 600 species of ferns (more than the whole of Africa's 500 species) of which 50 are found nowhere else, and the richest collection in the world for the "Nepenthes" pitcher plants (five of the thirteen are found nowhere else on earth) which reach spectacular proportions (the largest-pitchered in the world being the endemic "Nepenthes rajah"). The parasitic "Rafflesia" plant, which has the largest single flower in the world, is also found in Kinabalu (particularly "Rafflesia keithii"