Let G be an edge-colored connected graph of order n ≥ 3, where adjacent edges may be colored the same. Let k be an integer with 2 ≤ k ≤ n and S ⊆ V (G) with |S| = k. The Steiner distance d(S) of S is the minimum size of a tree in G connecting S. The strong k-rainbow index srxk
(G) of G is the minimum number of colors required to color the edges of G so that every set S in G is connected by a tree of size d(S) whose edges have distinct colors. We focus on k = 3. In this paper, we first characterize the graphs G with srx
3 (G) = 2. According to the definition, it is clearly that ‖G‖ is the trivial upper bound for srx
3(G). Several previous researchers have shown that there exist some connected graphs G such that srx
3(G) = ‖G‖. Hence, in this paper, we provide another graph G such that srx
3(G) = ‖G‖.