!Meiracyllium trinasutum Rchb.f 1854 Photo by © Stieffatre Philippe (France)
Another Flower ViewPhoto by © Hisanori Orchids of the World Website
Plant and FlowersPhoto 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
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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 a 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 ; *Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 8 1959 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 11 1961 photo; Die Orchideen #2 5-8 tafel 3 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 column only drrawing ok; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 9 1983 drawing; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo;
Meiracyllium trinasutum Rchb.f 1854 var album Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
This is a white color variety of the previous species.
References The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume 5 Withner 1998 photo fide
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