It looks very much like one of the Brassavola nodosa intergenic hybrids. The species has tube shaped leaves and night scented flowers with thread like petals and sepals. Your plant may have been crossed with any of a number of cattleya, laelia or brassavola hybrids to achieve the purple color. Flowering problems are very hard to diagnose with such complex hybrids. Each of the species which contributed to it had its own specific combination of requirements, so it is pure guesswork with complex hybrids. B. nodosa is a warm growing species, which like most Brassavolas, doesn't mind dry conditions. The last big specimen I had was mounted on cork bark. The B. digbynata I have had for decades is a true xerophyte and I almost lost it when I carelessly planted it in a medium which retained too much moisture. It is now in coarse fir bark and thriving with just one watering every 10 days or so.
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