dendrobium elated laina

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I grab whatever orchids I can get.

Seriously, from what you wrote, my best guess would be 'Laina' is a cultivar name. If so it should grow like and look a lot like other Den. Elated clones, with or without cultivar names. There is a photo of Den. Elated without cultivar name on the St. Augustine Orchid Society Web page. This plant probably will look a lot like that.

I found references online to cultivars 'Beatrice' and 'Carmela' but not 'Laina'.

It has ancestry in the Latouria group. My observation here on Orchid Board, and at home, is that people who run into trouble with this group are letting them get dry between waterings. They decline rapidly unless they stay evenly moist.