Rafflesia Park where the flowers are numbered and monitored by the park rangers. "Rafflesia" are also remarkable for showing a large horizontal transfer of genes from their host plants. This is well known among bacteria, but not higher organisms. The name "corpse flower" applied to "Rafflesia" can be confusing because this common name also refers to the titan arum ("Amorphophallus titanum") of the family Araceae. Moreover, because "Amorphophallus" has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence, it is sometimes mistakenly credited as having the world's largest flower. Both "Rafflesia" and "Amorphophallus" are flowering plants, but they are only distantly related. "Rafflesia arnoldii" has
Rafflesia consueloae Rafflesia consueloae Rafflesia consueloae is a parasitic plant species of the genus "Rafflesia" endemic to the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is the smallest species of the genus "Rafflesia". The "Rafflesia consueloae" discovery was a result of a long-term biodiversity conservation and monitoring program at the Pantabangan-Carranglan Watershed which commenced in March 2011. "R. consueloae" was discovered on 11 February 2014 when a researcher walking in a heavily degraded rain forest north of Manila tripped over a mass of rotting leaves, and noticed an unusual bloom; a monitoring for the "Rafflesia" species was immediately started. The research team