Rafflesia consueloae studied. The species is the smallest of all "Rafflesia", measuring an average diameter of when fully expanded. The disk surface of newly opened flowers of "R. consueloae" is described to as distinctly cream-white and usually without processes. It is reported that "R. consueloae" has bisexual flowers, the third species after "R. baletei" and "R. verrucosato" to be described as such in the Philippines, but it has not been established whether both sexes of each flower are functional. "Rafflesia consueloae"'s flowers do not exhibit the distinct odor found in "R. arnoldii" (nicknamed the "corpse flower") and most species of "Rafflesia", with
Unplaced in APG II Samydaceae as a separate family from Salicaceae. Several genera have been removed from Rafflesiaceae, so that it now consists of only three genera: "Sapria", "Rhizanthes", and "Rafflesia". All of these are holoparasites and, as discussed below, finding their relationships by molecular phylogenetics has presented special challenges. "Rafflesia" and its relatives were the subject of several papers from 2004 to 2009, and as the world's largest flower, "Rafflesia" has attracted special interest. In 2009, Wurdack and Davis confirmed earlier work in which it was found that Rafflesiaceae is nested within Euphorbiaceae sensu stricto, a circumscription of Euphorbiaceae that excludes Phyllanthaceae, Picrodendraceae,