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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. More recent research places the family (in a restricted circumscription) in order Malpighiales (Barkman et al., 2004), and also does not consider the other families of the Rafflesiales order as related anymore (Nickrent et al., 2004).
The family sensu lato has traditionally included 9 genera, which have around 50 species altogether.
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