Illustration of Rhizanthes (at the time known as Brugmansia, a name which now refers to the unrelated plant genus Brugmansia), from Der Bau und die Eigenschaften der Pflanzen (1913).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Malpighiales
Family:
Rafflesiaceae
Genus:
Rhizanthes Dumort.[1]
Type species
Rhizanthes zippelii
Blume (Spach)
Synonyms[2]
Brugmansia Blume non Pers.
Brugmansia Rchb.
Zippelia Rchb.
Rhizanthes is a genus of four species of parasitic flowering plants in the family Rafflesiaceae. They are without leaves, stems, roots, or photosynthetic tissue, and grow within the roots of a few species of Tetrastigma vines. The genus is limited to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. The flowers of Rhizanthes are very large, they vary from 14 to 43 cm in diameter. At least one species of Rhizanthes, Rh. lowii, is endothermic.
^"Rhizanthes". International Plant Names Index. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^"Rhizanthes Dumort". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
Southeast Asia. The flowers of Rhizanthes are very large, they vary from 14 to 43 cm in diameter. At least one species of Rhizanthes, Rh. lowii, is endothermic...
Rhizanthes lowii is a species of parasitic flowering plant without leaves, stems, roots, or photosynthetic tissue. It grows on the roots of the Tetrastigma...
Rhizanthes infanticida is a species of parasitic flowering plants without leaves, stems, roots, or photosynthetic tissue. They grow on roots of the Tetrastigma...
Rhizanthes deceptor is a species of parasitic flowering plant without leaves, stems, roots, or photosynthetic tissue. They grow on roots of the Tetrastigma...
Rhizanthes zippelii is a species of parasitic flowering plant without leaves, stems, roots, or photosynthetic tissue. Its flowers bud out of the roots...
at least one species in the non-photosynthetic parasitic genus Rhizanthes, Rhizanthes lowii. Many endothermy plant species rely on alternative oxidase...
three genera (corresponding to tribe Rafflesieae, that is, Rafflesia, Rhizanthes, and Sapria) were components of the eudicot order Malpighiales. The genus...
having been used to place the parasitic plants now classified in the genus Rhizanthes by Ludwig Reichenbach. "Zippelia". International Plant Names Index. The...
while Rhizanthes quite obviously have many more perianth-lobes than the five of Rafflesia, making this unlikely to be overlooked by Brown. No Rhizanthes species...
(Bonnetiaceae), Trichostephanus (Samydaceae), Sapria (Rafflesiaceae), Rhizanthes (Rafflesiaceae), and Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) had been either added or...
"Rhizanthella" is a diminutive of Rhizanthes, a parasitic plant in the Family Rafflesiaceae. The name "Rhizanthes" is derived from the Ancient Greek...
Rafflesiaceae, so that it now consists of only three genera: Sapria, Rhizanthes, and Rafflesia. All of these are holoparasites and, as discussed below...
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