Abstract
Rafflesia camarinensis, a new species of Rafflesia, is described from Mt. Asog, Camarines Sur in southeastern Luzon, Philippines. The species is remarkable in being one of the smallest Rafflesia in the Philippines with flower diameter measuring just 11-13 cm across. It is distinguished from R. baletei from the adjoining Mt. Isarog by various characters more notably its smaller size, dome-shaped perigone lobes, thicker and almost woody texture, less dense warts which are more or less homogeneous and raised, fewer, shorter and randomly distributed processes, and a diaphragm concolorous with the perigone lobes and with continuous thick white warts on its surface. It has a very narrow distribution, is critically endangered and needs immediate conservation actions.
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