New member with id. missing from new orchid

[Normkp]

Hi Folks,

I came home from the San Francisco Orchid Show last week with new orchids (exciting). I'd been without them for a few years, but couldn't resist this time.

One little beauty came home with no identification stake. I think it's a dendrobium, but I'm not even sure of that. I'm posting a couple of pictures, and I'm hoping one of you can help.

For the record I'm new here and very impressed with the Orchid Board. I grew and successfully bloomed Phaleanopsis while I was living near San Francisco Bay. Now I'm living in the Napa Valley with different humidity and temperature ranges and with different orchids (dendrobium and oncidium as well as phal.) I figure I'll need to learn orchids all over again but I'm eager to learn.

Norm

[Orchidophile]

Hi Norm, great looking plant there. It looks to me like a Potinara of some kind, its in the cattleya alliance

[nurseryman]

Originally Posted by Normkp

Hi Folks,

I came home from the San Francisco Orchid Show last week with new orchids (exciting). I'd been without them for a few years, but couldn't resist this time.

One little beauty came home with no identification stake. I think it's a dendrobium, but I'm not even sure of that. I'm posting a couple of pictures, and I'm hoping one of you can help.

For the record I'm new here and very impressed with the Orchid Board. I grew and successfully bloomed Phaleanopsis while I was living near San Francisco Bay. Now I'm living in the Napa Valley with different humidity and temperature ranges and with different orchids (dendrobium and oncidium as well as phal.) I figure I'll need to learn orchids all over again but I'm eager to learn.

Norm

Welcome Norm,

Not 100%, but I think its a Laelia/Cattleya cultivar.
The orange suggests Cattleya Aurantica in its make up.
This is just a 'guess'.Sorry cant be more help.
Rich

[cb977]

Actually, it looks just like my Bsp Robert Randall!

Brassophranthe Robert Randall (Brassanthe Bill Worsley x Sophronitis cinnabarina)

These two pics show it in different lighting...

[Normkp]

Susanne, I think you nailed it. My new orchid looks just like your Brassophranthe Robert Randall. The shape of the sepals and petals, the ruffled trumpet shape of the lip, and the darker orange dots on the lip--all the same. Many thanks. I'm impressed.

Thanks too to Rich and Tim for taking a stab at it.

Norm