Altensteinia marginata Rchb.f. 1878

Photo by © Karl Senghas and

Common Name The Rimmed Altensteinia

Flower Size

Found in Ancash department of Peru at elevations around 3600 meters as a 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 acuminate, shorter to equal to the length of the flowers floral bracts .

Synonyms Altensteinia pterostyloides (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1921; Prescottia pteristyloides Kraenzl. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Xenia Orchid. 3: 20 Rchb.f 1878

Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 98 Schweinfurth 1958;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 photo fide

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