See text The many-striped canastero (Asthenes flammulata) is a species of passerine bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae.

[2] The many-striped canastero was described as Synalaxis flammulatus by William Jardine in 1850 from a specimen taken in Andean tablelands near Quito.

Adults of the nominate subspecies have a buff-whitish supercilium on an otherwise dark brownish face with buff to whitish streaks.

Their upperparts from back to uppertail coverts are dark brown with conspicuous pale buff streaks.

[10][11][12] Subspecies A. f. multostriata compared to the nominate has a more ochraceous supercilium, a darker chestnut forehead, a deeper rufous chin and throat, and wider blackish edges on the flank and undertail covert streaks.

A. f. quindiana is similar to multostriata but with a white chin, a paler throat, and narrower streaks on the undertail coverts.

The five subspecies are found thus:[2][10] The many-striped canastero inhabits the ecotone between timberline and páramo grasslands, a landscape characterized by rock outcrops, scattered shrubs, Espeletia, and groves of Polylepis trees.

[10][11][12] The many-striped canastero is described as "often sneaky and remaining hidden", hopping and running among grass tussocks, sometimes with its tail cocked.

It forages singly or in pairs, typically by gleaning prey mostly from the ground and also from shrubs and Polylepis branches.

The many-striped canastero's song is an "accelerating series of buzzy notes that initially rises in pitch, and towards the end smoothly changes into a stuttering descending trill tzee-tzee-tzee-tzeetzeetzetztztztzrrrrrrr".