Epidendrum baumannianum Schltr. 1920 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids

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Common Name Baumann's Epidendrum [French Gardener late 1800's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found from Mexico to Ecuador in lowland rainforest, often with antnests or on steep embankments at elevations of 50 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with roots that only arise from the base [a major difference with the related Epi radicans that has roots any where on the stem] and erect, non-swollen, cane-like stems enveloped by grayish sheaths and carrying 6 to 10, subcoriaceous, elliptic, bilobed basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on a terminal, to 20" [to 50 cm] long, congested, successively flowered, racemose inflorescence with the several flowers held in an umbrel at the apex.

Synonyms Epidendrum hawkesii A.H.Heller 1966

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ;Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 074 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 717 Dodson 1982 as E hawkesii; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1520 Atwood 1993; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006