Epidendrum baumannianum Schltr. 1920 GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum
Drawing by © Jimenez, Hágsater & E.Santiago and The AMO Herbario Website
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Common Name Baumann's Epidendrum [French Gardener late 1800's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador in lowland rainforest, often with antnests or on steep embankments at elevations of 50 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with roots that only arise from the base [a major difference with the related Epi radicans that has roots arising 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 apical umbel. The tall plants, the caespitose stems with roots only at the base, and leaves distrubuted along the emiddle, the elongate peduncle, the successive flowering, the resupinate, yellowish flowers, the lacinate margins of the lip and the erect column distinguish this species.
This species is often found in conjunction with ants and may benefit from their presence.
" Epidendrum baumannianum belongs to the GROUP Secundum SUBGROUP Secundum , characterized by the caespitose habit, numerous oblong, coriaceous leaves, usually elongate peduncle of the inflorescence with a short raceme of flowers, bicallose lip and caudicles of the pollinia, like apile of roof-tiles. The species is recognized by the resupinate, reddish orange flowers, the column, calli and keel yellow, sepals acuminate, .5 to 1" [12.5 to 25 mm] long, oblong, oblique petals with entire margin, very similar to the lateral sepals, .48 to.96" [12 to 24 mm] long, the column with a pair of apical, deltoid, appendices, the lip 3-fobed with a dentate margin. Epidendrum hawkesii Heller has been considered by many authors a synonym of E. baumannianum, they are vegetatively very similar, but the former has oblanceolate, acute sepals, narrowly rhombic petals that are unguiculate at the base and the apical margin erose-dentate. Epidendrum apatotylosum Hagsater has taller plants, up to 60" [150 cm] high, non-resupinate, purplish red flowers with the distal part of the column white, and a pair of truncate, laminar, appendices at the apex of the column are easily confused with calli, the 3-lobed lip has a dentate-fimbriate margin. Epidendrum radicans Pavo ex Lindl. has a creeping habit, with roots all along the ítem, orange reddish flowers, the disc of the lip yellow with a few red dots, sepals and petals are generally spreading, elliptic and acute, the margin entire." Hagsater etal 2008
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 126 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 244 Schlechter 1920; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:167 Schlechter 1924; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. Figuren -Atlas 57: 169 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 074 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 717 Dodson 1982 as E hawkesii; ORQUIDEA (Méx.) 9(1): 1983 photo fide; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1520 Atwood 1993 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 2 Plate 178 Hagsater & Dodson 1993 see distribution section; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Manual de las Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 8 2004; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 909 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1104 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1105 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1130 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section; Orchids of the Department of Valle De Cauca Colombia Vol 2 Kolanowska, Hagsater etal. 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas, Tesoro de Colombia Vol 2 Ortiz & Uribe 2017 photo/drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1790 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section;
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