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Altensteinia ustulata is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes in 1950. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Myrosmodes ustulata.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador in paramo at elevations of 3000 to 4100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial that blooms in the winter on an erect, completly enveloped by 5 to 6, fistulose, loose fitting, diaphanous sheaths with a blackish brown apex, rachis short to 1.6 [4 cm] long, cylindric, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with a decurved, blackish brown apex, obovate-oblong, obtuse floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: Minute
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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