Rafflesiaceae este o familie de plante parazite răspândite în Asia de Est și Sud-Est. Un exemplu de specie este Rafflesia arnoldii.
Cladogramă conform Catalogue of Life:
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Referințe
- Barkman, T.J., S.-H. Lim, K. Mat Salleh and J. Nais. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA sequences reveal the photosynthetic relatives of Rafflesia, the world's largest flower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA 101:787–792.
- Charles C. Davis, Maribeth Latvis, Daniel L. Nickrent, Kenneth J. Wurdack, David A. Baum. 2007. Floral gigantism in Rafflesiaceae. Science Express, published online 11 ianuarie 2007 (online abstract here).
- Meijer, W. 1997. Rafflesiaceae, in Flora Malesiana I, 13: 1–42.
- Nickrent, D.L., A. Blarer, Y.-L. Qiu, R. Vidal-Russell and F.E. Anderson. 2004. Phylogenetic inference in Rafflesiales: the influence of rate heterogeneity and horizontal gene transfer. BMC Evolutionary Biology 4:40 (HTML abstract PDF).
Legături externe
- Rafflesiaceae de la Angiosperm Phylogeny Web
- Rafflesiaceae de la Parasitic Plant Connection website (diferite imagini)
- BBC news: Family found for gigantic flowers
