List of largest inflorescences

The following is a list of the largest inflorescences known from plants that produce seeds.

Type	Species and family	Native range	Dimensions	Comments
Largest overall. Largest panicle. Largest monocot.	Corypha umbraculifera; Arecaceae	Southwestern India and Sri Lanka	Panicle can reach more than tall. The flowering stem is up to thick.	It consists of up to sixty million flowers and emerges from a bud high and in thickness. It is Monocarpic, flowering and fruiting only once, then dying.
Tallest inflorescence.	Agave weberi; Asparagaceae	San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas	The flowering stem, the scape, may very rarely reach as much as in height in Florida, but in its native range it only reaches. The panicle in the strict sense is just of this height.	Each rosette is monocarpic, but the plant produces side shoots or "pups" which can grow as large as the mother plant. The population in Florida was regarded as a separate species as Agave neglecta, but has now been synonymized with A. weberi.
Largest dicot inflorescence.	Caloncoba flagelliflora ; Achariaceae	Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa.	Each of the runners may radiate out more than from the trunk of the tree along the forest floor, with the maximum length measured as.	Its 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.
Largest complex inflorescence	Ficus uncinata ; Moraceae	Malay Peninsula and Borneo	Stolon-panicle up to in length. Width not stated. Subunits are syconia.	Almost all fig species are pollinated by parasitic wasps, usually one wasp species exclusively with one Ficus species. It is not clear how these two subterranean figs accomplish pollination.
Largest spiciform panicle.	Puya raimondii ; Bromeliaceae	High Andes of Peru and western to central Bolivia	Spiciform panicle that usually reaches in height, but has a maximum recorded height of. The total height of the plant when blooming may reach. The stem at the base of the inflorescence may be in height and a very thick.	Composed of 8,000 to 20,000 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.
Largest triplex inflorescence.	"Makua" Araliaceae.	Montane rainforests of New Guinea.	Up to high and comparable width.	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.
Largest thyrse.	Maypole Tree Rutaceae.	Amazon Basin	Up to in height and equally wide and composed of numerous botryoid cymes.	This also is a monocarp. It was discovered in 1911 by Dr. Ernst H. G. Ule. Also called Spathelia excelsa.
Largest unbranched inflorescence. Largest spatheate inflorescence.	The krubi, or bunga bangui Amorphophallus titanum; Araceae	Sumatra	Spadix up to in height. Spathe about half as high and across the mouth. Amorphophallus hewettii marginally smaller. Amorphophallus gigas taller but smaller.	The plant lives about 40 years, blooming about every fourth year. The inflorescence springs up from a corm weighing up to. A corm grown by Dr. Louis Ricciardello of Gilford, New Hampshire is claimed to have weighed and produced an inflorescence in height. The tallest A. titanum inflorescence reported in a credible source is. In the non-flowering years the corm produces a single compound leaf about high, and comparably wide, resembling a small tree.
Largest true spike.	"Lechugilla" or "mescal pelon". Agave pelona Agavaceae	Sonora State, Mexico.	Spike per se up to long with additionally a peduncle.	'
Largest catkin.	Ivory palm. Palmae, or Arecaceae.	Montane rainforests of the Andes.	Male catkins up to long by thick.	According to Dr. Giuseppe Mazza, the Coco de Mer can have male catkins up to in length. but no more than width. Lodoicea is another candidate for longest living inflorescence since the catkins are known to produce pollen for a period of ten years, "or more".
Largest overall umbel. Largest compound umbel.	Caucasian hogweed Umbelliferae	Originally from Caucasus Mountains, but now naturalized to much of Europe.	Twice compound umbel up to in width, and composed of about 10,000 flowers.	The sap of this plant can produce severe burns to human skin.
Largest raceme.	"Gibarra". Campanulaceae	The high mountains of Ethiopia.	Raceme up to in height by about wide, on a plant with a total height of	Similar giant Lobelia species are found in Ruwenzori and Mount Kilimanjaro. The Iliau of Kauai, Hawai'i produces complex racemes up to long by up to wide on a peduncle up to in length, on a plant with a total height of about. The raceme consists of about two hundred yellow daisy heads each about in diameter. These are arranged in about 20 whorls of ten capitula each.
Largest bractate inflorescence.	Phyllobotryon soyauxianum. Historically Flacourtiaceae, but now included in Salicaceae.	Rainforests of Nigeria, Cameroons and Gabon	Bract up to in length by in width.	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 Tilia species, rather than transfer of reproductive function to the leaves as in Ginkgo biloba 'Epiphylla', and some Streptocarpus spp. The largest individual flower borne upon a leaf is that of Erythrochiton hypophyllanthus of South America, which bears a solitary flower up to wide in the middle of a leaf up to length by wide.
Largest enclosed inflorescence.	Sikkim rhubarb	The Himalayas.	Up to in height by in width at base.	The inflorescence is enclosed by overlapping, translucent, cream-colored bracts up to diameter.
Largest globular capitulum.	African breadfruit Moraceae	Central Africa.	About at time of flowering, eventually becoming up to in width by about half as long and weighing up to. According to Aubreville, The capitulum can be up to wide and up to in weight.	The largest globular capitulum is the Jackfruit grown throughout southern Asia and the East Indies. The largest Jackfruit reported in a reliable journal weighed. Both the Jakcfruit and Treculia are cauliflorous. The present Guinness champion, from Pune, Maharashtra, India, weighs.
Largest capitate inflorescence.	King protea Proteaceae.	West Cape Province, South Africa.	in diameter, including bracts. By contrast, the smallest wild capitate inflorescence is that of Hesperevax sparsiflora, a composite, which has 5 to 9 disc florets, each only 0.2 mm width, surrounded by bracts bringing the capitulum up to 3.8 mm width.	The largest capitate inflorescence is the so-called "Russian Sunflower" Compositae which has developed capitate inflorescences or "heads" as much as wide, or if the ray florets are included. The "Russian" sunflower is native to the North American prairies. The tightly packed disc florets can have a phyllotaxis as high as 144 / 377.
Largest simple umbel	Candelabra flower Amaryllidaceae.	South Africa.	The 35 deep rose flowers form a ball up to diameter.	The simple umbel with the greatest number of flowers is Flowering Onion of the Himalayas. Mr. James N. Giridlian, a bulb dealer in Arcadia, California counted 5286 florets in a single globular umbel about diameter.
Largest cincinnus	Paloeloe or sororoca	The wetlands of the Amazon Rainforest.	Each cincinnus of up to 25 flowers is subtended by a sheathing bract up to in length and wide at the base. Each flower is up to in length. There are up to ten cincinni, alternating left and right, on a peduncle up to in total height.	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 tall.
Largest verticillaster	Lion's ear or wild dagga Lamiaceae	Savannas of South Africa and adjacent southern Africa.	Five to eight evenly spaced globular clusters along a peduncle up to in height by up to in width.	Some bamboos such as Dendrocalamus spp. have verticillasters of more numerous, but smaller clusters.
Largest syconium	Dinner plate fig	Montane Rainforests of New Guinea.	Up to diameter.
Largest cyme.	Begonia macdougalii	Mexico.	Total length but only is the cyme sensu stricto, the rest being the peduncle.	Reportedly also in Brazil.
Largest adventitious inflorescence.	Cape primrose Gesneriaceae.	KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.	White or pale lavender flowers form a cluster about 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 up to long by wide. The inflorescence forms near the petiole end of the leaf.
Largest corymb.	American elderberry Caprifoliaceae.	Eastern North America.	Corymb up to in width.	-
Largest dimorphic bractate inflorescence.	Marcgravia evenia	Cuba	About long by wide.	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, about 20 tetramerous flowers form a discoid circle about diameter. Below this a second set of bracts are formed into extrafloral nectaries which provide a reward for the bats' efforts.
Largest bifloral inflorescence. Always consists of exactly two flowers.	Burmese honeysuckle.	Southern China, northern Burma and northern Thailand.	Each flower up to in length.
Largest individual flower, or solitary inflorescence.	Kerubut. Found by Dr. Gan Canglin in August 2007 in Kelantan State, Malaysia, it measured wide. Previously unknown to science, R. kerrii was described by Meijer in 1984.
Longest solitary inflorescence	Pelican flower	Southern Mexico, Central America and the West Indies.	Floral tube up to wide, with one sepal extending downward as a 'tail' up to long and about 1 cm in width. This flower is much lighter than Rafflesia; about as against up to for R. arnoldii	Rohwer says the tail can be up to in length. The tail serves as a "red carpet" to lead pollinators to the stamens and pistel.
Smallest inflorescence.	Wolffia arrhiza	Wetlands of North America and the West Indies.	The single male flower, measuring 0.33 mm height combined with one female flower measuring 0.3 mm diameter to form a tiny inflorescence only 0.33 mm average width.