HI Kelly,

Yep, the guy screwed up and sent thaiensis instead of the promised asterostigmatus. I've got around 20 of them still after getting rid of a ton of them this fall after mine bloomed to confirm the ID. The petioles are incredibly variable on these and the ones that are a wonderful reddish purple are just fantastic :o) Dan

Hi Kelly and Dan, So why do you think that this is A. thaiensis? I received a tuber last year from Natural Selections Exotics and it flowered looking the same as yours. I was informed by others who had the same thing that it was more likely A. yunnanensis. Any ideas on how to distinguish between the two?

dirtface,
I am certainly no expert on being able to distinguish between species. I asked Dan just because I thought maybe he would know because I got it from him. They DO look very simaler and to be honest, I personally am not sure. Maybe Dan checked or will check with someone who could tell us for certain, like Wilbert. As for me, I couldn't be sure one way or the other.

Yep, Wilbert Hetterscheid Identified mine....that makes it an open and shut case.....whoever IDed yours last year was apparently incorrect (hope I had nothing to do with it!!). By the way, I have lots of yunnanensis tubers and they look nothing like the thaiensis tuber that produced this influorescence. Aren't these guys fun....they honestly all look too much alike after awhile which is why I finally only started getting a very few new species to try that I really love based on others picturesm rather than just collecting them because they are easy to get fairly cheaply anymore :o) Dan

Hi Dan,

I'm one of the people who told Bryan that the plant I got from Natural Selections Exotics was A. yunnanensis. My source for the ID also was Wilbert. :-) Did you send him close-ups of the male and female flowers as well as the appendix? From what I can tell, A. thaiensis and A. yunnanensis are fairly similar, but I've never read the species descriptions to know which chracters separate the two species.

Ron