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Altensteinia pterostyloides is an orchid species identified by (Kraenzl.) Schltr. in 1921. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Altensteinia marginata.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru at elevations around 3600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a glabrous, leafy below, enveloped above by loose, often leafy tubular bracts and carrying 4 to 5, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the broad, imbricating, petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, to 6 [15 cm] long, long-cylindric, rachis glandular-pilose, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to aciuminate, shorter to equal to the length of the flowers.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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