Epidendrum trianthum Schltr. 1923 Group Loefgrenii SUBGROUP Excisum Photo by © Moises Behar and Orchidstudium Website

Plant in Situ Photo by © Carol Peroni and Flickriver Orchid Website

Common Name The Three Flowered Epidendrum [Schlechter only had a three flowered specimen to examine]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica in montane wet forests at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epipohyte or lithophyte with erefct, simple, cane-like, laterally compressed, stems enveloped completely by imbricate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 3 to 11, all along the stem, somewhat spreading, articulate, distichous, elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, conduplicate below, obtuse to subacute apically, narrowly bilobed, subcoriaceous, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, erect, racemose, sub-umbellate, dense, short, laterally compressed, ancipitose, two-winged, 3 to 24 flowered inflorescence arising through spathaceous bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate, fleshy flowers

Synonyms Epidendrum nagelii L.O.Williams 941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 as Epidendrum nagelii drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 11 Plate 1191 Hagsater & Sanchez 2001 drawing fide

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