The Rafflesia consueloae discovery was a result of a long-term biodiversity conservation and monitoring program at the Pantabangan-Carranglan Watershed which commenced in March 2011.

[1] R. consueloae was discovered on 11 February 2014[2] when a researcher walking in a heavily degraded rain forest north of Manila tripped over a mass of rotting leaves, and noticed an unusual bloom;[3] a monitoring for the Rafflesia species was immediately started.

[1] The species is the smallest of all Rafflesia, measuring an average diameter of 9.73 centimeters (3.83 in) when fully expanded.

[1][3] The disk surface of newly opened flowers of R. consueloae is described to as distinctly cream-white and usually without processes.

It grows exclusively in the roots of an unidentified species of Tetrastigma among thickets of Dinochloa luconiae, a climbing bamboo.