!Meiracyllium trinasutum Rchb.f 1854 Photo by © Stieffatre Philippe (France)
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Common Name Three-Nosed Meiracyllium
Flower Size about 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in canyons on trees and rocks up to 1300 meters in altitude as a miniature sized, creeping, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte without pseudobulbs, that has 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 bracts and carrying cinnamon scented flowers.
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 fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 11 1961 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 9 1983 drawing fide; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo not = M wendlandii; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016;
Meiracyllium trinasutum Rchb.f 1854 var album Photo by © Elizabeth Tilling
This is a white color variety of the previous species.
References The Cattleyas and Their Relatives Volume 5 Withner 1998 photo fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
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