Rafflesia  (Rafflesia spp)

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Glossary

  • Ex-situ: measures to conserve a species or habitat that occurs outside of the natural range of the species, e.g. in zoos or botanical gardens.
  • Genus: a category used in taxonomy, which is below ‘family’ and above ‘species’. A genus tends to contain species that have characteristics in common. The genus forms the first part of a ‘binomial’ Latin species name; the second part is the specific name.
  • Parasite: an organism that derives its food from, and lives in or on, another living organism at the host’s expense.

References

  1. Walter, K.S. and Gillett, H.J. (1998) 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants.IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
  2. Attenborough, D. (1995) The Private Life of Plants.BBC Books, London.
  3. Western Michigan University (March, 2003)
    http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~tbarkman/rafflesia/Rafflesia.html
  4. Nais, J. (2001) Rafflesia of the World.Sabah Parks, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
  5. The Genus Rafflesia (February, 2008)
    http://www.earlham.edu/~givenbe/Rafflesia/rafflesia/biodiv2.htm
  6. UNEP-WCMC: Kinabalu Park (February, 2008)
    http://www.unep-wcmc.org/sites/wh/kinabalu.html
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