Biology:Rafflesia schadenbergiana

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Rafflesia schadenbergiana
Rafflesia schandenbergiana illustration.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Rafflesiaceae
Genus: Rafflesia
Species:
R. schadenbergiana
Binomial name
Rafflesia schadenbergiana
(Goepp.) Ferreras
Synonyms
  • Rafflesia apoana Goepp.
Rafflesia schadenbergiana, photographed mid-July in situ

Rafflesia schadenbergiana is a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia. Known as "bó-o" to the Bagobo tribe and "kolon busaw" to the Higaonon tribe of Bukidnon, it has the largest flower among the Rafflesia species found in the Philippines with a diameter ranging from 52 to 80 centimeters.[1][2] It has also the second largest flower in the genus after R. arnoldii.

This species was first collected in the vicinity of Mount Apo, Mindanao, during an expedition led by Schadenberg and Koch in 1882.[2] It was not seen for more than a century and was assumed to be extinct[3] until Pascal Lays found a specimen of this species in South Cotabato in 1994 while studying the Tasaday.[4] A population of this rare Rafflesia species was recently discovered in Baungon, Bukidnon, just outside the buffer zone of the Mount Kitanglad Natural Park in 2007.[1][5][note 1]

R. schadenbergiana is endemic to the island of Mindanao, Philippines .

Notes

  1. For more information about the remarkable species, see the review in the following citation: Barceona, et al. "Taxonomy, ecology, and conservation status of Philippine Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae)" Blumea. 54:77-94. doi:10.3767/000651909X474122.[6]

References

External links


Wikidata ☰ Q2439373 entry