!Meiracyllium trinasutum Rchb.f 1854 Photo by Jay Pfahl

Another view Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids.

Another View Photo by Eric Hunt plant grown by Scott Dallas of White Oak Orchids

to and EARLY

Common Name Three-nosed Meiracyllium

Flower Size about 1" [2.5 cm]

A dwarf, creeping, epiphyte or lithophyte without psuedobulbs, from southern Mexico Guatemala and El Salvador with a terete rhizome enveloped by scarious sheaths with a stem carrying a single, apical, sessile, orbicular to broadly elliptic, obtuse or rounded, fleshy coriaceous leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a shorter than the leaf, terminal, several [1 to 6] flowered inflorescence that has short, triangular floral bract and is an cool to hot growing plant that is found in canyons on trees and rocks up to 1300 meters in altitude.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Meiracyllium trinasutum Rchb.f 1854 var album Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

This is a white color variety of the previous species.

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