Ok, I've done more research and my label kind of looked like flava, so I checked out L. flava and found it to have several names: L. crispata, a sophronitis and also
L. rupestris...now I'm thinking that I heard rubescens and maybe it was rupestris....here is an except from an article I found on the net:
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Hoffmannseggella crispata, on the other hand, occurs much more to the northeast, with its widespread main distribution centered around Belo Horizonte (although there is a southern population in the Ibitipoca mountains, very well separated and distant from those of Hfglla. flavasulina). The rock is basically quartzit in São Tomé das Letras and iron ore, sandstone or granite around Belo Horizonte and to its east and northeast. The plants are also quite different and easilly identifiable without flowers, something that cannot be said for many species in the genus. The psudobulbs in Hoffmannseggella flavasulina are stouter and of a light green color, sometimes with a pinkish suffusion, while in Hfglla. crispata they are of a very dark green almost always with intense dark purple tint. The leaves are flattened and straightened in Hoffmannseggella flavasulina and curved backwards in Hfglla. crispata; coloration is as on the pseudobulbs. Inflorescences are similar in both species, with long spikes and flowers bunched at the top, and this is (together with flower color, to an extend) one of the reasons why the two species were considered the same.
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What do you guys think? It says intense dark purple tint !! but imagine, it could have
yellow to orange/red blooms.
Helen