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	RAFFLESIACEAE : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rafflesiaceae is a family of parasitic plants found in east and southeast Asia, including Rafflesia arnoldii, the plant with the largest flower of all plants.
		Rafflesiaceae was considered an unplaced family in the APG II system, while other authors placed it into the order Rafflesiales together with some other families of parasitic plants.
		Rafflesiaceae is restricted to the genera Rafflesia, Rhizanthes, and Sapria.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Rafflesiaceae (276 words)

	Dev çiçeğin DNA’sı çıkarıldı
		Botanik uzmanları, Rafflesiaceae ilk kez 46 milyon yıl önce çiçek açmaya başladı ve çiçek evrim geçirerek hızla büyüdü.
		Rafflesiaceae çiçeği, tropik yağmur ormanlarında kuytu bölgelerde yaşıyor, geniş yapraklarını açarak kokusunu salıyor ve sineklerin gelip polenlerini taşımasını sağlıyor.
		Rafflesiaceae çiçeğinin kokusu insanlara hoş gelen bir koku salgılamıyor, diğer çiçekler gibi sinekler yoluyla polenlerini dağıtıyor.
	www.ntvmsnbc.com /news/396587.asp (218 words)

	Amazon.com: Rafflesiaceae: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Flora of Tropical East Africa - Rafflesiaceae (1998) (Flora of Tropical East Africa) by B. Verdcourt and R. m.
		Rafflesiaceae, and Sparga- niaceae, the rain-forest families of low specific diversity...
		In (a) Rafflesiaceae (indicated by red branches) is placed in...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Rafflesiaceae&tag=selendycommunica&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (1263 words)

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		Rafflesiaceae: Information/Images from the University of Hawaii - Manoa)
		Rafflesiaceae: Images from the Vascular Plant Image Library of the Digital Flora of Texas
		Rafflesiaceae: Full family nomenclature from the INSPV Project
	www.csdl.tamu.edu /FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Rafflesiaceae (150 words)

	Family found for giant, stinking flower
		The large flowering plant is named rafflesiaceae after one of the men who discovered it.
		"We were surprised that rafflesiaceae belongs to this family because we thought we knew and understood a lot about them," said Davis.
		The family also has some important crops - including the rubber tree, castor oil plant and the cassava shrub, which is used throughout much of the world as an important part of their diet like many people eat a lot of rice or beans.
	www.eurekalert.org /features/kids/2007-01/aaft-fff010807.php (511 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Phylogenetic inference in Rafflesiales: the influence of rate heterogeneity and horizontal ...
		These authors proposed that Rafflesiaceae are most closely related to Ochnaceae or Clusiaceae which contrasts with presumed synapomorphies with Passiflora given by Barkman et al.
		Although the evidence for a malpighialean affinity of Rafflesiaceae appears strong, it is possible that the molecular data have only identified the stem group that represents the sister to the parasitic lineage.
		Rafflesiaceae (Rafflesia, Rhizanthes, and Sapria) representing the large-flowered clade are monophyletic and are related to Malpighiales.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2148/4/40 (8159 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Family found for gigantic flowers
		The Rafflesiaceae were tricky to place because of their unusual features, the team reports in the journal Science.
		Eschewing the process of photosynthesis, the Rafflesiaceae bed down in the tissue of the tropical grape vine, feasting upon the nutrients it provides.
		The botanists used DNA analysis to delve into the ancestry of the Rafflesiaceae, a group that comprises some 50 individual species.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/6251517.stm (458 words)

	Biology News: Giant stinker finds place in plant family tree
		The plant's taxonomic position, along with that of other species in the Rafflesiaceae group, has been hard to pin down because of a lack of clues in the morphological and genetic data, says Charles Davis of Harvard University Herbaria in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		Broad-scale studies using mitochondrial DNA had already shown that Rafflesiaceae are members of the Malpighiales order.
		All the Rafflesiaceae plants have giant flowers that smell of rotting meat, with R. arnoldii being the queen stinker.
	www.bioedonline.org /news/news.cfm?art=3053 (703 words)

	Rafflesiaceae s. s. References
		Bänziger, H. Studies on hitherto unknown fruits and seeds of some Rafflesiaceae, and a method to manually pollinate their flowers for research and conservation.
		Meijer, W. Taxonomy and evolution of Rafflesiaceae in southeast Asia.
		Solms-Laubach, H. Ueber den Bau des Samens in den Familien der Rafflesiaceae und Hydnoraceae.
	www.parasiticplants.siu.edu /rafflesiaceae/references.html (1206 words)

	Pilostyles: An Amazing Wildflower
		According to Rutherford (1970), most species in the Rafflesiaceae are dioecious, with separate male and female individuals in the population.
		The authors presented results of phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial, nuclear and plastid data showing that Rafflesiaceae are derived from within the Euphorbiaceae (spurge family).
		Rutherford, R.J. "The Anatomy and Cytology of Pilostyles thurberi Gray (Rafflesiaceae)." Aliso 7: 263-288.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ploct98.htm (3716 words)

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		Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Rafflesiales and Balanophoraceae Over the past century, traditional means of classifying Balanophoraceae, Hydnoraceae, and Rafflesiaceae have met with difficulty owing to the extreme reduction and/or modification of morphological structures that have accompanied the evolution of these lineages.
		These results indicate that Rafflesiaceae sensu latu is a paraphyletic group composed of at least two and possibly three distinct families.
		The difficulty in placing the holoparasite families Balanophoraceae, Hydnoraceae, and Rafflesiaceae within the overall classification of angiosperms can be attributed to their extremely derived vegetative and floral features combined with very high rates of molecular evolution.
	www.science.siu.edu /plant-biology/Faculty/nickrent/NickrentPDFs/Nickrent&Duff1996.doc (9797 words)

	Blarer, Albert, Dan Nickrent, Hans Bänziger, Peter K. Endress, and Yin-Long Qiu. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)*
		We analyzed the sequences of nuclear ITS and SSU rDNA, and mitochondrial atp1, matR, and LSU and SSU rDNA (total length about 9000 bp) from 13 species and 9 Genera of Rafflesiaceae s.l.
		They identified four clades that were previously recognized as Rafflesiaceae s.s., Apodanthaceae, Cytinaceae, and Mitrastemonaceae.
		Furthermore, based on expanded unpublished analyses with other angiosperms, Mitrastemonaceae do not form a monophyletic group with the other Rafflesiaceae s.l.
	www.ou.edu /cas/botany-micro/botany2000/section13/abstracts/48.shtml (154 words)

	Smithsonian: Spotlight on Science
		The movement of genes between sexually unrelated organisms has long been known to be a major force in bacterial evolution but it is rare in eukaryotes.
		Wurdack was examining the evolutionary relationships of Rafflesiaceae, parasitic plants so reduced and bizarre in appearance (lacking leaves, stems, roots, etc. and taking all nutrition from their hosts) that their phylogenetic relationships have been speculative.
		Earlier this year other researchers found a single mitochondrial gene that gave an entirely unexpected placement of Rafflesiaceae with Malpighiales, the order of plants including violets, poinsettias, and willows on which Wurdack conducts his research.
	www.si.edu /research/spotlight/printable/2_18.htm (1650 words)

	Family Found For Giganic Flowers
		The botanists used DNA analysis to delve into the ancestry of the Rafflesiaceae, revealing that the plants belong to the Euphorbiaceae family.
		Plants in this family, which include the rubber tree, castor oil plant and the cassava shrub, are typified by small blossoms, the researchers comment.
		Like the Rafflesiaceae, it smells of rotting flesh, but does not belong to the same family.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1766237/posts (1084 words)

	Rafflesiaceae
		[ Radulaceae ] [ Rafflesiaceae ] [ Ranunculaceae ]
		Vernacular names of plants within the Family Rafflesiaceae
		For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.
	www.crescentbloom.com /Plants/Familia/R/Rafflesiaceae.htm (67 words)

	[Malpigs] Malpighiales - Rafflesiaceae. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I haven't been in contact with the lead author (Tod Barkman), but what is needed is inclusion of a couple morer taxa - one from Malpigs themselves, Euphorbiaceae, perhas Rhizophoraceae - to confirm that Raff.
		Anyhow, we have lost Peridiscaceae and probably gained Rafflesiaceae - so we are way ahead on the transactions.
		Thgose of you who are on the TAXACOM list may have seen the recent suggestions of Ken Kinman re the dismembering of Malpighiales (he now seems to be toying with Ericales).
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /pipermail/malpigs/February2004/msg00002.html (189 words)

	Malpighiales
		The inclusion of Rafflesiaceae in Malpighiales follows the recent findings of Barkman et al.
		2004); Nickrent (2002) had suggested that Rafflesiaceae themselves might be close to Malvales.
		However, other analyses, including those in which not all members of the erstwhile Rafflesiales are included together, suggest a break-up of the group, with Rafflesiaceae here, Mitrastemonaceae in Ericales, Cytinaceae in or near Malvales, and Apodanthaceae still with an uncertain position, but perhaps in or near Malvales or Cucurbi
	www.mobot.org /MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/malpighialesweb.htm (10535 words)

	Rafflesiaceae - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com
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	www.wordreference.com /fren/Rafflesiaceae (71 words)

	FloraBase Quick Search: Rafflesiaceae
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	florabase.calm.wa.gov.au /search/quick?q=Rafflesiaceae (53 words)

	Web Directory » Web Directory » Science » Biology » Flora and Fauna » Plantae » ...
		Web Directory » Science » Biology » Flora and Fauna » Plantae »; Magnoliophyta »; Magnoliopsida »; Rafflesiaceae
		Parasitic Plants - Rafflesiaceae - Description, range map, list of genera, and many images.
		The content on this page is based on the Open Directory Project and has been modified by this website.
	www.dcpages.com /DC_ODP/?c=Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rafflesiaceae (119 words)

	Floral Gigantism in Rafflesiaceae -- Davis et al., 10.1126/science.1135260 -- Science
		Floral Gigantism in Rafflesiaceae -- Davis et al., 10.1126/science.1135260 -- Science
		Department of Botany University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Drive Madison, WI 53706, USA.
		Species of Rafflesiaceae possess the world's largest flowers
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/abstract/1135260v1 (271 words)

	Rafflesia Family (Rafflesiaceae) \| Family
		Home > Plants > Kingdom Plantae > Division Magnoliophyta > Class Magnoliopsida > Order Rafflesiales  > Rafflesia Family (Rafflesiaceae)
		Welcome to Garden Guides' plant type taxonomy guide, currently showing is the Family Rafflesiaceae (scientific name), commonly known as Rafflesia Family.
		Rafflesiaceae is a member of the Order Rafflesiales.
	www.gardenguides.com /plants/taxonomy.asp?tax=1926056 (54 words)

	Plants from the botanical group RAFFLESIACEAE - Page: 1
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	www.mygarden.net.au /names/family/564/1 (693 words)

	PLANTS Profile for Pilostyles thurberi (Thurber's stemsucker) \| USDA PLANTS
		Pilostyles thurberi Gray occures in the following states: Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas
		View 1 genera in Rafflesiaceae, 1 species in Pilostyles
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	plants.usda.gov /java/profile?symbol=PITH (74 words)

	family Rafflesiaceae - Definition of family Rafflesiaceae by Webster's Online Dictionary
		family Rafflesiaceae - Definition of family Rafflesiaceae by Webster's Online Dictionary
		family Rafflesiaceae - a family of parasitic plants of the order Aristolochiales
		Aristolochiales, dicot family, magnoliopsid family, order Aristolochiales, Rafflesiaceae
	www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/family%20Rafflesiaceae (41 words)

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