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
Rafflesia arnoldii whilst waiting for the British Museum to produce a better-prepared version. The generic name "Rafflesia", given in honour of Raffles and proposed by Brown, who had originally wanted to call it "Arnoldii" after Arnold, was validated by S. F. Gray in his report of the June 1820 meeting of the Linnean Society of London, as published in the "Annals of Philosophy" in September that year. The species "Rafflesia arnoldii" was officially described for the first time in 1821 by Brown, so that Arnold was commemorated after all. The flower of "Rafflesia arnoldii" grows to a diameter of around , but