No doubt this a wonderful lip!
This has been treated as a separate variety here in Brazil, but I really can't agree. The only difference between this and the variety roxo-violeta is the size of the lip. To me, creating a new variety based only upon the size of the lip is to push things a little, but that's the way things are for now. For me, the correct name would be Laelia purpurata var. roxo-violeta, like so many other of this color.
Anyway, none of this makes it less beautiful than it is!
