[Botany • 2013] Developmental Origins of the World’s largest flowers, Rafflesiaceae

Pictured is a flower of the plant Rafflesia, which produces the world's largest flowers at up to one meter in diameter. These parasitic plants, found in Southeast Asia, attract carrion fly pollinators with an odor similar to rotting flesh. Lachezar A. Nikolov et al. examined the morphological differences between Rafflesia and its close relative Sapria, both members of the Rafflesiaceae family. The two genera both enclose their reproductive organs within a diaphragm, yet the structures of the…

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