Rafflesia baletei: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Rafflesiaceae
- Genus
- Rafflesia
- Species
- Rafflesia baletei
- Scientific Name
- Rafflesia baletei
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Rafflesia baletei
Rafflesia baletei is a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia. It is endemic to the Philippines.
The species was first collected in 1991 by Bicolano mammalogist Danilo S. Balete on Mount Isarog and was initially thought to be Rafflesia manillana. It was only in 2006 that Filipino scientists confirmed the identity of this new species, naming it in Balete's honour. After the establishment of the identity of this species, a new population was rediscovered on Mount Isarog and Mount Iriga. See this citation for a review of Philippine Rafflesia.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Rafflesia arnoldii
- Rafflesia aurantia
- Rafflesia baletei
- Rafflesia bengkuluensis
- Rafflesia cantleyi
- Rafflesia consueloae
- Rafflesia gadutensis
- Rafflesia hasseltii
- Rafflesia horsfieldii
- Rafflesia keithii
- Rafflesia kerrii
- Rafflesia lagascae
- Rafflesia lawangensis
- Rafflesia leonardi
- Rafflesia lobata
- Rafflesia manillana
- Rafflesia meijeri
- Rafflesia micropylora
- Rafflesia mira
- Rafflesia mixta
- Rafflesia parvimaculata
- Rafflesia philippensis
- Rafflesia pricei
- Rafflesia rochussenii
- Rafflesia schadenbergiana
- Rafflesia sharifah-hapsahiae
- Rafflesia speciosa
- Rafflesia su-meiae
- Rafflesia tengku-adlinii
- Rafflesia tuan-mudae
- Rafflesia verrucosa