Rafflesia cantleyi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Rafflesiaceae
- Genus
- Rafflesia
- Species
- Rafflesia cantleyi
- Scientific Name
- Rafflesia cantleyi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Rafflesia cantleyi
Rafflesia cantleyi is a parasitic plant species of the genus Rafflesia. It can be found in Peninsular Malaysia and Pulau Tioman, an island off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. This species is almost identical to R. hasseltii, except for the number of warts on the perigone lobes of the two species. Another distinctive feature of R. cantleyi is its ability to form flowers on the aerial portions of its host Tetrastigma.
R. cantleyi was named after Nathaniel Cantley, curator of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
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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







