Coryanthes trifoliata C. Schweinf. 1944 Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Another Flower Angle Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Berstrom Orchids

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Common Name The Three-Leafed Coryanthes

Flower Size 3" [7.5cm]

Found in northern Peru around 100 to 1000 meters in elevation as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with narrowly pyriform-cylindric, ribbed, pseudobulbs carrying 3, apical, plicate, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate leaf that gradually narrows below into the long slender, channeled petiole that blooms on a lightly arcuate then pendant, to 13" [33 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying 6 small, tubelar, mastly remote sheaths and heavily scented flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1960; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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