List of largest inflorescences

! Type

! Species and family

! Native range

! Dimensions

! Comments

| Corypha umbraculifera; Arecaceae (Talipot palm)

| Southwestern India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon){{cite POWO |id=666347-1 |title=Corypha umbraculifera L. |access-date=3 August 2024}}

| Panicle can reach more than {{convert|8|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}} tall.{{cite journal |last1=Tomlinson |first1=P. Barry |title=The uniqueness of palms |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |date=May 2006 |volume=151 |issue=1 |pages=5–14 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2006.00520.x |language=en}} The flowering stem (peduncle) is up to {{convert|14|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|order=flip}} thick.{{cite book| last= Hodel | first= Donald F. | date= 1998 | title= Palms and Cycads of Thailand | location= Lawrence, Kansas | publisher= Allen Press | page= 76}}

| It consists of up to sixty million (60,000,000) flowers and emerges from a bud {{convert|4|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|order=flip}} high and {{convert|30|cm|ft|0|sp=us}} in thickness.{{cite periodical| date= January 7, 1899| title=Colonial Notes | url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83814#page/19/mode/1up | periodical= The Gardeners' Chronicle | series= Third Series | volume= 25 | page= 3}} It is Monocarpic, flowering and fruiting only once, then dying.{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=David Lloyd |author1-link=David L. Jones (botanist) |title=Palms Throughout the World |date=1995 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=978-1-56098-616-4 |page=202 |url=https://archive.org/details/palmsthroughoutw0000jone/page/202 |access-date=3 August 2024 |language=en}}

| Agave weberi; Asparagaceae

| San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas{{cite POWO |id=6788-2 |title=Agave weberi J.F.Cels ex J.Poiss. |access-date=3 August 2024}}

| The flowering stem, the scape, may very rarely reach as much as {{convert|13|m|ft|sp=us}} in height in Florida,{{cite web |last1=Reveal |first1= James L. |last2=Hodgson |first2=Wendy C. |title=Agave neglecta |url=http://floranorthamerica.org/Agave_neglecta |website=Flora of North America |access-date=3 August 2024 |date=5 November 2020}} but in its native range it only reaches {{convert|8|m|ft|sp=us}}.

The panicle in the strict sense is just {{convert|3|m|ft|abbr=off|0|sp=us}} of this height.{{cite book |last1=Small |first1=John Kunkel |author1-link=John Kunkel Small |title=Flora of the Southeastern United States |date=1903 |publisher=Published by the Author |location=New York |page=289 |url=https://archive.org/details/floraofsoutheast0000john/page/289 |access-date=3 August 2024 |language=en}}

| Each rosette is monocarpic, but the plant produces side shoots or "pups" which can grow as large as the mother plant.{{cite web |last1=Reveal |first1= James L. |last2=Hodgson |first2=Wendy C. |title=Agave weberi |url=http://floranorthamerica.org/Agave_weberi |website=Flora of North America |access-date=3 August 2024 |date=5 November 2020}} The population in Florida was regarded as a separate species as Agave neglecta, but has now been synonymized with A. weberi.

| Caloncoba flagelliflora ; Achariaceae

| Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa.{{cite POWO |id=365011-1 |title=Caloncoba flagelliflora (Mildbr.) Gilg ex Pellegr. |access-date=8 August 2024}}

| Each of the runners may radiate out more than {{convert|10|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}} from the trunk of the tree along the forest floor,{{cite book |last1=Huxley |first1=Anthony Julian |author1-link=Anthony Huxley |title=Plant and Planet |date=1974 |publisher=Allen Lane |location=London |isbn=978-0-7139-0496-3 |page=86 |url=https://archive.org/details/plantplanet0000huxl_h1t4/page/86 |access-date=3 August 2024}} with the maximum length measured as {{convert|11.8|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite journal |last1=Schatz |first1=George E. |last2=Wendt |first2=Tom |title=A New Flagelliflorous Species of Stenanona (Annonaceae) from Mexico, with a Review of the Phenomenon of Flagelliflory |journal=Lundellia |date=December 2004 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=28–38 |doi=10.25224/1097-993X-7.1.28 |language=en}}

| Its two-inch (5 cm) wide, six-petaled white flowers rise just above the forest litter. This could be one of the longest lived inflorescences. In principle it could produce flowers for decades.{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}

| Ficus uncinata ; Moraceae{{cite POWO |id=77086960-1 |title=Ficus uncinata (King) Becc. |access-date=15 August 2024}}

| Malay Peninsula and Borneo

| Stolon-panicle up to {{convert|10|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}} in length. Width not stated. Subunits are syconia (figs).{{cite book |last1=Berg |first1=C. C. |last2=Corner |first2=E. J. H. |author2-link=E. J. H. Corner |title=Flora Malesiana |date=2005 |publisher=Noordhoff |location=Groningen |isbn=90-71236-61-7 |pages=461 |url=https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/579346/FM1S2005017002001.pdf |access-date=15 August 2024 |language=en |volume=17,2: Series I, Spermatophyta Moraceae (Ficus)}}

| Almost all fig species are pollinated by parasitic wasps, usually one wasp species exclusively with one Ficus species.{{cite book | last1= Allen | first1=Richard | last2= Baker | first2= Kimbal | date= 2009 | title= Australia's Remarkable Trees | location = Melbourne | publisher= Miegunyah Press | page= 100 }} It is not clear how these two subterranean figs accomplish pollination.

| Puya raimondii ; Bromeliaceae{{cite POWO |id=214666-2 |title=Puya raimondii Harms |access-date=19 September 2024}} ("Titanka" or "Cunco")

| High Andes of Peru and western to central Bolivia

| Spiciform panicle that usually reaches {{convert|4 to 5|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}} in height, but has a maximum recorded height of {{convert|8|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}}. The total height of the plant when blooming may reach {{convert|15|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}}. The stem at the base of the inflorescence may be {{cvt|60–90|cm|in}} in height and a very thick {{cvt|20–40|cm|in}}.{{cite book |last1=Manzanares |first1=José Manuel |editor1-last=Eggli |editor1-first=Urs |editor2-last=Nyffeler |editor2-first=Reto |date=2020 |chapter=Puya Bromeliaceae |title=Monocotyledons. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants |language=en |edition=Second |location=Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-662-56486-8_94 |isbn=978-3-662-56486-8 |oclc=1145609055}}

| Composed of 8,000{{cite book | last= Raimondi | first= Antonio |date= 1874 | title= El Peru | location= Lima | publisher= Imprinto del Estado |volume= 1 | pages= 295–297}} to 20,000{{cite book | last= Huxley | first= Anthony | date= 1974 | title= Plant and Planet | location= New York | publisher= Viking | page= 143}} flowers arranged into several hundred secondary spikes, each subtended by a conspicuous bract. Like the Talipot and most Agaves, this is a monocarp. The life cycle from seed to seed is 80 to 150 years. The largest individuals are to be found near the abandoned village of Manallasaq, Huamanga Province, Peru.{{cite web | url= http://www.apj.co.uk/travelblog/display_page.asp?section=latest_image_medium&id=221 | title= A Profound Journey | access-date= August 30, 2005 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060118150132/http://apj.co.uk/travelblog/display_page.asp?section=latest_image_medium&id=221 |archive-date= January 18, 2006}}

|"Makua" (Harmsiopanax ingens) Araliaceae.

| Montane rainforests of New Guinea.

| Up to 16.6 feet (five meters) high and comparable width.{{ cite journal | last= Philipson | first= W. R. | date= 1973 | title= A Revision of Harmsiopanax | journal= Blumea | volume= 21 | issue= 1 | pages=84–85 }}

| The basic framework is a panicle, The ultimate twigs are spikes, but not with individual flowers, but about fifty tiny umbels of 8 to 20 flowers each. H. ingens is another monocarp. Harmsiopanax may be the only genus which combines three types of inflorescence.

| Maypole Tree (Sohnreyia excelsa) Rutaceae.

| Amazon Basin

| Ten feet (three meters) in height and equally wide and composed of numerous botryoid cymes.{{cite journal | last1=Cowan |first1=Richard E. |last2=Brizicky |first2=George K. |date=April 30, 1960 |title=Taxonomic Relations of Diomma | journal=Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden |volume=10 |issue=2 | page=64 }}

| This also is a monocarp. It was discovered in 1911 by Dr. Ernst H. G. Ule.{{cite journal | last= Pilger | first= Robert | date= April 4, 1914 | title= Plantae Uleanae | journal= Notizblatt des Botanische Gartens und Museums zu Berlin |volume= 6 | issue= 55 | page= 148 }} Also called Spathelia excelsa.

| The krubi, or bunga bangui Amorphophallus titanum; Araceae

| Sumatra

| Spadix up to {{convert|3|m|ft|0}} in height. Spathe about half as high and {{convert|4|ft|11|in|m|abbr=in|sp=us}} across the mouth.{{cite book| editor-last= Glenday| editor-first= Craig | date= 2006 | title= Guinness World Records 2006 | location= London | publisher= Guinness World Records Ltd. | page= 96}} Amorphophallus hewettii marginally smaller. Amorphophallus gigas taller but smaller.

| The plant lives about forty years, blooming about every fourth year. The inflorescence springs up from a corm weighing up to 257 lbs 6 oz. (117 kilograms). A corm grown by Dr. Louis Ricciardello of Gilford, New Hampshire is claimed to have weighed {{convert|305|lb|kg|abbr=off}} and produced an inflorescence {{convert|10|ft|2.25|in|m|abbr=in|sp=us}} in height.Laurel Trier, "Local Surgeon May Own The Largest Flower in the World", GILFORD STEAMER newspaper (July 1, 2010 Page 1{{ cite web| url= https://www.livescience.com/51947-corpse-flower-facts-about-the-smelly-plant.htm| title= Corpse Flower - Facts about the Smelly Plant. | last= Bradford | first= Alina | website= Live Science | date= May 30, 2017 | access-date= August 13, 2021}} The tallest A titanum inflorescence reported in a credible source is {{convert|10|ft|10|in|m|abbr=in|sp=us}}.{{ cite journal | last= Bogner | first= J. | year= 1981 | title= Amorphophallus titanum (Becc.) Becc. ex Arcangeli | journal= Aroideana | volume= 4 | issue= 2 | pages= 43–53 | url= https://www.aroid.org/aroideana/artpage.php?key=MDA0MDIwMQ==R | via= International Aroid Society }} In the non-flowering years the corm produces a single leaf about 15 to 20-feet (4.5 to 6 meters) high, and comparably wide, resembling a small tree.{{ cite book | last= Bown | first= Deni | date= 2000 | title= Aroids - Plants of the Arum Family | location= Portland | publisher= Timber Press | page= 227 }}

| "Lechugilla" or "mescal pelon". Agave pelona Agavaceae

| Sonora State, Mexico.

| Spike per se up to {{convert|17|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} long with additionally a {{convert|4.5|ft|m|adj=on|abbr=off|sp=us}} peduncle. Spike, including flowers, is about four inches (ten centimeters) wide.Measured August 21, 2001 at the Huntington Library, Galleries and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California.

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| Ivory palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa). Palmae, or Arecaceae.

| Montane rainforests of the Andes.

| Male catkins up to {{convert|4|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} long by {{convert|10|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} thick.{{cite book| last= McCurrach| first= James L. | date= 1960 | title= Palms of the World | url= https://archive.org/details/palmsofworld0000mccu | url-access= registration | location= New York | publisher= Harper and Bros. | pages= [https://archive.org/details/palmsofworld0000mccu/page/173 173]–174| isbn= 9780960004607}}

|According to Dr. Giuseppe Mazza, the Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica) can have male catkins up to {{convert|2|meter|ftin|sp=us|spell=in}} in length.{{cite web | url= http://photomazza.com/?The-Incredible-Maldivian-Lodoicea| title= The Incredible Maldivian Lodoicea and the Vallee de Mai | last= Mazza | first= Dr. Giuseppe | date= n.d. | access-date= September 23, 2015}} Caption to a photograph. but no more than {{convert|4|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in width (and therefore less massive than those of Phytelephas). Lodoicea is another candidate for longest living inflorescence since the catkins are known to produce pollen for a period of ten years, "or more".Gardener's Chronicle. Volume 1 (first series) [September 4. 1841] page 583.

| Caucasian Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) Umbelliferae

| Originally from Caucasus Mountains, but now naturalized to much of Europe.

| Twice compound umbel up to {{convert|5|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in width, and composed of about 10,000 flowers.{{cite book| last= Chittenden| first= Fred and Patrick Synge | date= 1965 | title= Royal Hort. Soc. Dictionary of Gardening |location= Oxford, Eng. | publisher= Clarendon Press |volume= 2 | page= 986}}{{cite periodical |date= May 7, 1898 |title= Heracleum Mantegazzianum |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83813#page/326/mode/1up |periodical= The Gardeners' Chronicle |series= Third Series | volume= 23 | page= 284}}{{cite magazine | date= March 2, 1901 | title=Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommier & Levier | magazine= The Garden | volume= 59 | issue= 1528 | page= 148 | via= Biodiversity Heritage Library | url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79268#page/176/mode/1up }}

| The sap of this plant can produce severe burns to human skin.

| "Gibarra" (Lobelia rhynchopetalum). Campanulaceae

| The high mountains of Ethiopia.

| Raceme up to {{convert|11.5|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} in height by about {{convert|10|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} wide, on a plant with a total height of {{convert|15|to|22|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}{{ cite book| last= Karsten| first= Georg and Heinrich Schenck | date= 1910 | title= Vegetationsbilder | location= Jena | publisher= Gustav Fischer | page= Vol. 7 Plate 30}}{{cite journal | last=Wimmer | first=F. E. | date= 1953 | title= Campanulaceae - Lobelioidae |journal= Pflanzenreich | volume= 4 | issue= 276b | page= 667}}

| Similar giant Lobelia species are found in Ruwenzori and Mount Kilimanjaro. The Iliau (Wilkesia gymnoxiphium) [Compositae] of Kauai, Hawai'i produces complex racemes up to {{convert|3|ft|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} long by up to {{convert|15|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} wide on a peduncle up to {{convert|9|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in length, on a plant with a total height of about {{convert|12|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}}. The raceme consists of about two hundred yellow daisy heads (capitula) each about {{convert|1|in|cm|spell=in}} in diameter.{{cite web| url= http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/Faculty/Carr/images/wgym_rob.jpg | title= Wilkesia gymnoxiphium | last= Carr | first= G.D. | date= n.d. | access-date= April 4, 2015}} These are arranged in about twenty whorls of ten daisies each.

| Phyllobotryon soyauxianum. Historically Flacourtiaceae, but now included in Salicaceae.

| Rainforests of Nigeria, Cameroons and Gabon

| Bract up to forty inches (one meter) in length by {{convert|7|in|cm|spell=in}} in width.{{ cite book| last= Menninger| first= Edward R. | date= 1967 | title= Fantastic Trees | url= https://archive.org/details/fantastictrees00menn | url-access= registration | location= New York | publisher= Viking Press | page= [https://archive.org/details/fantastictrees00menn/page/52 52]}}

| Also spelled Phyllobotryum, and also known as phyllobotryon spatulatum. The flowers appear along the midrib. It is thought by most morphologists that this represents the fusion of an inflorescence to a leaf as in the Lindens (Tilia spp), rather than transfer of reproductive function to the leaves as in Ginkgo biloba epiphylla{{cite web | url= https://www.kyoboku.com/ohatsuki/ |last= anonymous |title= Ginkgo biloba | date= n.d. |access-date= August 12, 2021}} and some Streptocarpus spp. The largest individual flower borne upon a leaf is that of Erythrochiton hypophyllanthus (Rutaceae) of South America, which bears a solitary flower up to 2.7 inches (seven cm) wide in the middle of a leaf up to 19.5 inches (fifty centimeters) in length by {{convert|5.25|in|cm}} wide.{{ cite journal| last1= Engler | first1= A. | last2= Prantl | first2= K. | date= 1897 | title= Rutaceae | journal= Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien |volume= 3 | page= figure 96}}

| The Sikkim Rhubarb (Rheum nobile) (Chenopodiaceae)

| The Himalayas.

| Up to 6 ft 7in (two meters) in height by {{convert|2|ft|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in width at base.

|The inflorescence is enclosed by overlapping, translucent, cream-colored bracts up to {{convert|10|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in diameter.{{cite book | last= Hinkley | first= Daniel J. | date= 1999 |title= The Explorer's Garden | location= Portland. | publisher= Timber Press | pages= 156–157}}{{cite web | url= https://www.gr/linkOfTheMonth-January%202011php | last= Valentine | first= | title= Link Of The Month | date= January 2011 | access-date= September 22, 2015}}{{dead link|date=June 2023|fix-attempted=yes}}

|African Breadfruit (Treculia africana) Moraceae

| Central Africa.

| About four inches (ten centimeters) at time of flowering, eventually becoming up to {{convert|18|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} in width by about half as long and weighing up to thirty pounds (up to 14 kilograms).{{cite book| last= Menninger | first= Edwin A. | date= 1967 | title= Fantastic Trees | location= New York | publisher= The Viking Press | page= 85}}{{ cite book | last= Fayaz | first= Ahmed | date= 2011 | title= Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants | location= Buffalo, N.Y. | publisher= Firefly Books | page= 447 }}{{ cite book | last= Graf | first= Alfred B. | date= 1973 | title= Exotica 3 | location= East Rutherford, N.J. | pages= 1128 plus photo p. 1170 }} According to Aubreville, The capitulum can be up to {{convert|20|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} in width and up to {{convert|33|lb|kg|abbr=off}} in weight.{{cite book| last1= Hutchinson | first1= John | last2= Dalziel | first2= J.M. | date= August 17, 1954 | title= Flora of West Tropical Africa |volume=1 Part 2 | location= London | publisher= Crown Agents for Overseas Govt's |page= 613}}

|The largest globular capitulum (domesticated) is the Jakfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) (Moraceae) grown throughout southern Asia and the East Indies. The largest Jakfruit reported in a reliable journal weighed in at {{convert|112|lb|kg|abbr=off}}.{{cite book | last= anonymous | date= December 26, 1908 | title= Gardener's Chronicle | volume= 44 | series=Third series | id= 1148 | page= 445 }}{{cite book | last= Burkill | first= Isaac H. | date= 1935 | title= A Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula | location= London | publisher= Crown Agents for the Colonies | page=254 |volume=1}} Both the Jakfruit and Treculia are cauliflorous (borne directly on the trunk and/or major limbs). The present Guinness champion, from Pune (Poona), Maharashtra, India, weighs 94 lbs 3 oz (42.72 kilograms).{{ cite web | url= https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/78709-heaviest-jackfruit| title= Heaviest Jackfruit |website=Guinness World Records | date= June 23, 2016 |access-date= November 18, 2021}}

| The King Protea (Protea cynaroides) Proteaceae.

| West Cape Province, South Africa.

| {{convert|12|in|cm|abbr=off|spell=in}} in diameter, including bracts.{{ cite book| last= Eliovsen | first= Sima | date= 1965 | title= Proteas for Pleasure | location= Cape Town | publisher= Howard Timmons | page= 64}} By contrast, the smallest wild capitate inflorescence is that of Hesperevax sparsiflora. a composite, which has 5 to 9 disc florets, each only 1/ 120th of an inch (0.2 millimeter) in width, surrounded by bracts bringing the capitulum up to one-sixth inch (3.8 millimeters) in width.{{cite web | url= https://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0903a.htm | last= Armstrong | first= Wayne | title= Wayne's Word - Sunflower Family (Asteraceae) | date= | access-date= June 24, 2015 }}

| The largest capitate inflorescence (domesticated) is the so-called "Russian Sunflower" (Helianthus annuus macrocarpus) Compositae which has developed capitate inflorescences or "heads" as much as {{convert|25.5|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} wide, or {{convert|29|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} if the ray florets are included.{{ cite journal| title= Sunflower contest | journal= Organic Gardening and Farming | volume= 10 | issue= 12 | pages= 56–57}} The "Russian" sunflower is native to the North American prairies. The tightly packed disc florets can have a phylotaxis as high as 144 / 377.{{ cite book | last= Platt | first= Rutherford | date= 1960 |title= This Green World | location= New York | publisher= Dodd, Mead and Company | page= 54}}

| The Candelabra Flower (Brunsvigia orientalis, or B. gigantea) Amaryllidaceae.

| South Africa.

| The 35 deep rose colored flowers form a ball up to {{convert|24|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} in diameter.{{ cite book| last= Van der Spuy | first= Una | date= 1971 | title= Flowers of South Africa foe the Garden | location= Johannesburg | publisher= Hugh Keartland | page= 158 plus photo p. 157}}

|The simple umbel with the greatest number of flowers is Flowering Onion (Allium giganteum)[Alliaceae] of the Himalayas. Mr. James N. Giridlian, a bulb dealer in Arcadia, California counted 5286 florets in a single globular umbel about {{convert|6|in|cm|spell=in}} in diameter.Long Beach Independent Press Telegram (January 24, 1970) p. B3

|The Paloeloe or Sororoca (Phenakospermum guyannense) (Strelitziaceae)

|The wetlands of the Amazon Rainforest.

| Each cincinnus of up to 25 flowers is subtended by a sheathing bract up to {{convert|17|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in length and {{convert|14|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} wide at the base. Each flower is up to {{convert|11|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in length. There are up to ten cincinni, alternating left and right, on a peduncle up to {{convert|12|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in total height.{{cite web| url= http://botant.si.edu/zingiberales/genera/genuspage.cfm?mygenus=Phenakospermum&myfamily=Strelitziaceae| last= anonymous| title= Genera in the Zingiberales. Department of Botany. Smithsonian Institution | access-date= May 8, 2021}}

| This is another monocarp with a terminal inflorescence, but like some agaves it produces sideshoots which will eventually grow as large as the mother plant; in the case of Ph. guianense up to {{convert|40|feet|meter|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=on}} in height.

| Lion's Tail or Wild Dagga (Leonotis leonurus) Labiatae

| Savannas of South Africa and adjacent southern Africa.

|5 t0 8 evenly spaced globular clusters along a peduncle up to {{convert|3|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in height by up to 3.5 inches (nine centimeters) in width.{{cite book | last= Bailey | first= Liberty Hyde | date= 1935 | title= The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture - Volume II | location= New York | publisher= MacMillan Company | page= 1839 }}

| Some bamboos such as Dendrocalamus spp. have verticillasters of more numerous, but smaller clusters.

|The Dinner Plate Fig (Ficus dammaropsis) (Moraceae)

| Montane Rainforests of New Guinea.

| Up to {{convert|6|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in diameter.{{cite web| url= https://nparks.gov.sg.florafaunaweb/flora/7/2/7261 | title= Flora & Fauna Web - Ficus | last= anonymous | date= August 20, 2021 | access-date= October 9, 2021}}

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| Begonia macdougalii (Begoniaceae)

| Mexico.

| Total length {{convert|8|ft|8|in|cm|abbr=on}} but only {{convert|7|in|cm|spell=in}} is the cyme sensu stricto, the rest being the peduncle.Begonian Vol. 14 Issue 11 (November 1947) page 220.

| Reportedly also in Brazil.

| Cape Primrose (Streptocarpus saundersii.) Gesneriaceae.

| KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

| White or pale lavender flowers form a cluster about {{convert|24|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} high by about half as wide.

| Unlike Tilia and Phyllobotryon, reproductive function has been transferred to the leaf. The entire plant consists of a single cotyledon (seed leaf) up to {{convert|2.5|ft|cm}} long by {{convert|25|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} wide. The inflorescence forms near the petiole end of the leaf.{{ cite book| last1= Everard | first1= Barbara | last2=Morley | first2= Brian D. Ph.D. | date= 1970 | title= Wild Flowers of the World |location= New York | publisher= G.P. Putnqam's Sons | page= Plate 82 with caption}}

| The American, or Sweet, Elderberry. (Sambucus canadensis maxima). Caprifoliaceae.

| Eastern North America.

| Corymb up to {{convert|18|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in width.{{ cite book | last= Bailey | first= Liberty Hyde | date= 1935 | title= The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture - Volume III| location= New York | publisher= The MacMillan Company | page= 3067 }}

| Marcgravia evenia (Marcgraviaceae)

| Cuba

| About {{convert|12|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} long by {{convert|3|or|4|in|cm|abbr=off}} in width.{{ cite web| url= https://news.nationalgeographic.ccom/news/2011/07/110728-plants-bats-sonar-pollination-animals-environment |last= Kaufman | first= Rachel | title= Bats Drawn to Plant by "Echo Beacon" |date= July 28, 2011 | access-date= July 28, 2011}}Dressler, Stefan, Guide to the Genera of Lianas and Climbing Plant sin the Neotropics - Marcgraviaceae (November 2017

| This inflorescence is extraordinary. At the upper end of the pendant inflorescence are several concave bracts angled to reflect and focus the sonar pulses of bats, helping the bats to locate the flowers. In the middle of the inflorescence the tubular, tetramerous flowers, about twenty in number, form a discoid circle (or flat umbel) about three inches (eight centimeters) in diameter. Below this a second set of bracts are formed into extrafloral nectarys which provide a reward for the bats' efforts.

| The Kerubut (Rafflesia arnoldii); Rafflesiaceae

| Sumatra

| Diameter {{convert|100|cm|in}} is most commonly given as the upper limit of R. arnoldii's expanse, but the largest R. arnoldii actually measured was one found by Prof. Syahbuddin of Andalas University in the Palupah Nature Reserve near Bukittinggi, Sumatra which measured {{convert|3|ft|5|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} in width.correspondance from Prof. (emeritus) Willim Meijer of the University of Kentucky at Lexington.{{ cite book| last= Marent| first= Thomas and Ben Morgan | date=2006 | title= Rainforest | location= New York | publisher= DK Publications Inc. | page= 253 caption}} The largest flower bud of any kind ever measured was an R. arnoldii bud {{convert|17|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} in diameter (not circumference) found at Mount Sago, western Sumatra by Prof. Willim Meijer in 1956.Meijer loc cit, It was destroyed by a superstitious native before it could bloom, but it seems certain that it would have broken Syahbuddin's record.

| Although R. arnoldii has the greatest average size, the largest Rafflesia flowers actually measured were two specimens of the Bua Phut (Rafflesia kerrii ), of peninsular Malaysia and peninsular Thailand). The first, found in the Lojing Highlands of peninsular Malaysia on April 7, 2004, by Prof. Dr. Kamarudin Mat-Salleh, and his co-worker Mat Ros, measured {{convert|3|ft|7.5|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}}{{ cite web| url= http://rafflesia-in-bloom.blogspot.com/ | title= Rafflesia in Bloom | date= April 2004 | access-date= April 4, 2008}} The second, found by Dr. Gan Canglin in August 2007 in Kelantan State, Malaysia measured {{convert|3|ft|8|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} in width.{{ cite web| url= http://ee.sinchow-i.com/content.phtml?sec=31&artid=200708110005&sdate= | title= World's Biggest Rafflesia Found in Kelantan | date= August 11, 2007 | access-date= September 11, 2007}}{{cite web | url= http://rafflesiaspp.blogspot.com/2008/03/r-kerrii-world-biggest-rafflesia-found.html | title= R.kerrii: World's Biggest Rafflesia Found in Kelantan |last= Tun | first= Jang | date= March 7, 2008 | access-date= December 9, 2015 }} Previously unknown to science, R. kerrii was described by Meijer in 1984.

| Pelican Flower (Aristolochia grandiflora) (Aristolochiaceae)

| Southern Mexico, Central America and the West Indies..

| Floral tube (in this case a calyx) up to {{convert|20|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=in}} wide and {{convert|22|in|cm|abbr=off|sp=us}} long, piebald and multicolored, with one sepal extending downward as a 'tail' up to ten feet (three meters) in length{{ cite journal| last= Pfeifer | first= Howard W. Ph.D. | date= November 1966 | title= Revision of North and Central American Species of Aristolochea |journal= Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden | volume= 53 | issue= 2 | page= 164 | doi= 10.2307/2394940 | jstor= 2394940 | url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/4247}}Correspondance with Prof. (emeritus) Howard W. Pfeifer of the Univ. of Connecticut. and about one-half inch (about one cm) in width. This flower is much lighter than Rafflesia; about two pounds (about one kilogram) as against up to {{convert|24|lb|kg|abbr=off}} for R. arnoldiiMarent and Morgan loc.cit.

| Rohwer says the tail can be up to 13' 1" (up to four meters) in length.{{ cite book | last= Rohwer | first= Prof. Dr. Jens G. | date= 2002 | title= Tropical Plants of the World | location= New York | publisher= Sterling Pub. Co. Inc. | page= 208 }} The tail serves literally as a "red carpet" to lead pollinators to the stamens and pistel. In sharp contrast to A. grandiflora is A. nana of Mexico. The population around San Luis Potosí have flowers only one-half centimeter (0.2 inch) long by one millimeter (1/25th inch) wide.{{ cite web | url= http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/vrrc/med/ARIS-aris-nana-mex-2017075.jps | title= Aristolochia nana S. Watson | last= Harrison | first= Neil A. | date= November 24, 1988 | access-date= June 7, 2005}} This is an herbarium sheet.

| Wolffia arrhiza (Lemnaceae)

| Wetlands of North America and the West Indies.

| The single male flower, measuring 1/75th inch (0.33 millimeter) in height combined with one female flower measuring 1/80th inch (0.3 millimeter) in diameter to form a tiny inflorescence only 1/75th inch (0.33 mm) average width.{{ cite book | last= Heywood | display-authors= etal | first= V.H. | year= 1978 | title= Flowering Plants of the World | location= New York | publisher= Mayflower Books | page= 307 illustration and caption }} Corypha umbraculata inflorescence is approximately twenty-two Billion (22,000,000,000 ) fold larger than Wolffia arhiza.

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