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== Sijarah ==
Urang Eropa partamo nan manamukan ''Rafflesia'' adolah panjalajah Parancih nan banamo [[Louis Auguste Deschamps]]. Pado maso itu, inyo malakukan panalitian ka Asia dan ditahan dek pihak Balando salamo tigo taun di [[Jawa]], 1797, dan mangumpuakan spesimen nan kini dikatahui sabagai ''[[Rafflesia patma]]''. Salamo palayaran baliak di taun 1798, kapanyo diambiak Inggirih sainggo sadoalah panalitianyopanalitiannyo disita dek pihak Inggirih. Panalitiannyo dinyatokan ilang, dan akhianyo ditamukan pado taun 1954 di Museum Sijarah Alam Britania (''British Museum of Natural History''). Kajadian ko mambuek raso curiga di kalangan paniliti ka pihak Inggirih nan dianggap manyambunyikan panalitian Deschamps sabagai klaim kabarasilan nagarinyo surang.<ref name="Meijer1997">{{cite book|last=Willem|first=Meijer|author-link=Willem Meijer|date=1997|chapter=Rafflesiaceae|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28737001|title=Flora Malesiana|url=https://floramalesiana.org/new/|volume=13|location=Leiden|publisher=[[Hortus Botanicus Leiden]], under auspices of Foundation [[Flora Malesiana]]|page=18|isbn=90-71236-33-1}}</ref><ref name="Mabberley1999">{{cite journal|last=Mabberley|first=David John|author-link=David Mabberley|date=1999|title=Robert Brown on ''Rafflesia''|url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/525222/BLUM1999044002003.pdf|journal=Blumea|volume=44|issue=2|pages=343–350|issn=2212-1676|access-date=28 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nationalgeographic.grid.id/read/131749421/rupanya-thomas-raffles-bukanlah-penemu-rafflesia-lantas-siapakah-penemu-sebenarnya?page=all|title=Rupanya Thomas Raffles Bukanlah Penemu Rafflesia. Lantas Siapakah Penemu Sebenarnya? - Semua Halaman - National Geographic|website=nationalgeographic.grid.id|language=id|access-date=2021-01-23}}</ref>
Pado 1818, ahli badah Inggirih, [[Joseph Arnold]] mangumpulkan spesimen Rafflesia spesies lain nan sangkek tu ditamukan dek palayan Malayunyo di Bengkulu, salamo maso pamarintahan Letnan Gubernur Bengkulu, [[Stamford Raffles]].<ref name="OriginalKew2">{{cite web|url=https://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Rafflesia-arnoldii.htm|title=''Rafflesia arnoldii'' (corpse flower)|date=2011|website=Plants & Fungi (blog)|publisher=[[Kew Botanical Gardens]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220014520/https://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Rafflesia-arnoldii.htm|archive-date=2014-02-20|access-date=29 October 2020|quote=note: unverified errata info possibly from Mabberley (1985)|author=<!--Not stated-->}}</ref> Indak lamo sasudah itu, Armold maningga dek sakik dan hasia panalitiannyo disarahkan ka [[Robert Brown]] untuak dipalajari.<ref name="OriginalKew2" />
Pado 1818, ahli badah Inggirih, Joseph Arnold mangumpulkan spesimen Rafflesia spesies lain nan sangkek tu diamukan dek palayan Malayunyo di
In 1818<ref name="OriginalKew2">{{cite web|url=https://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Rafflesia-arnoldii.htm|title=''Rafflesia arnoldii'' (corpse flower)|date=2011|website=Plants & Fungi (blog)|publisher=[[Kew Botanical Gardens]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220014520/https://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Rafflesia-arnoldii.htm|archive-date=2014-02-20|access-date=29 October 2020|quote=note: unverified errata info possibly from Mabberley (1985)|author=<!--Not stated-->}}</ref> the British surgeon [[:en:Joseph_Arnold|Joseph Arnold]] collected a specimen of another ''Rafflesia'' species found by a Malay servant in a part of Sumatra, then a British colony called [[:en:British_Bencoolen|British Bencoolen]] (now [[:en:Bengkulu|Bengkulu]]), during an expedition run by the recently appointed [[:en:Lieutenant-Governor_of_Bencoolen|Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen]], [[:en:Stamford_Raffles|Stamford Raffles]].<ref name="Keng1978">{{cite book|last=Keng|first=Hsuan|date=1978|title=Orders and Families of Malayan Seed Plants|edition=revised|location=Singapore|publisher=Singapore University Press (original published by University of Malaya Press 1969)|page=106}}</ref> Arnold contracted a fever and died soon after the discovery, the preserved material being sent to Banks. Banks passed on the materials,<ref name="OriginalKew2" /> and the honour to study them was given to [[:en:Robert_Brown_(botanist,_born_1773)|Robert Brown]]. The [[:en:British_Museum|British Museum]]'s resident botanical artist [[:en:Franz_Bauer|Franz Bauer]] was commissioned to make illustrations of the new plants. Brown eventually gave a speech before the June 1820 meeting of the [[:en:Linnean_Society_of_London|Linnean Society of London]], where he first introduced the genus and its until then two species.<ref name="Mabberley1999" /> Brown gave the [[:en:Generic_epithet|generic name]] ''Rafflesia'' in honour of Raffles.<ref name="OriginalKew2" /> Bauer completing his pictures some time in mid-1821, but the actual article on the subject continued to languish.<ref name="Mabberley1999" />
[[:en:William_Jack_(botanist)|William Jack]], Arnold's successor in the Sumatran Bencoolen colony, recollected the plant and was the first to officially [[:en:Species_description|describe the new species]] under the name ''R. titan'' in 1820. It is thought quite likely that Jack rushed the name to publication because he feared that the French might publish what they knew of the species, and thus rob the British of potential 'glory'.<ref name="Meijer1997" /> Apparently aware of Jack's work, Brown finally had the article published in the ''Transactions of the Linnean Society'' a year later, formally introducing the name ''R. arnoldii''<ref name="Mabberley1999" /> (he ignores Jack's work in his article).
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