C. sp. 'Central Sumatra 2'

I had the good fortune to obtain from my explorer friend a specimen of C. sp. 'Central Sumatra 2' which flowered inside the collection bag. The blooming spathe at it's original habitat looked like this (click here to see it). The one which bloomed in the bag looked like this:

The leaves looked like this:

The tube and kettle look like this and the front of the throat is slightly open as can be seen in some other species:

The close up of the limbs looked like this:

As can be seen, the limb and the throat formed a sharp angled fold:

As usual, I cut open the kettle to reveal the male and female parts of the flowers and found a caterpiller inside (how did the butterfly laid its eggs inside the kettle?):

Is this comparable to C. zukalii which was found in West Malaysia according to the crypt pages or is this something else?

C. sp. 'Pahang 8', should it be C. cf. xpurpurea 'Rompin' or C. cf. zukalii or what else?

I managed to visit the habitat of what I earlier termed as C. cf. xpurpurea to see the opened spathe in its natural habitat in Rompin. My friend who saw it earlier felt that it could be comparable to C. zukalii instead. attached below are the photographs which I took for your reference for you to decide yourself what it should be.

an unopened spathe

the golden orange coloured limb of the opened spathe, note the acute angle of the limb and the throat

the spathe being cut off to further expose the interior of the kettle

the slightly yellow coloured throat attracting a fly to rest, , the throat areas were not fully closed up for all the 3 opened spathes I saw so far

the interior of the kettle

The spectrum of variation in cryptocorynes found in the nature is sometimes really too great in my opinion to be able to accurately identify which species should a cryptocoryne be declared as. Maybe I should revert to terming it as just C. sp. 'Pahang 8' so as not to cause future confusion due to inaccurate indentification!

Another lesson learnt from this habitat : if one is too oblivious to what is happening in the surrounding, one might be easily crushed by the little fingers of others (mine in this case :-p, the mosquito would not fly away once they started sucking blood even as my little fingers closed in to kill them).