Sophronitis?
 

This plant is growing in a greenhouse at my university. It is labelled as Cattleya rex, but after looking at various pictures of the real Cattleya rex I am not sure what it is. Before I read the tag, I thought it was a Sophronitis, so that is what I'm wondering now.

Any ideas?

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To me it looks like Sophronitis cernua. It is deffinately not Cattleya rex. Well done spotting it.

I'm no where near an expert, but it really looks like the pictures I've seen of Sophronitis cernua and that would have been my novice guess as well.

It definetly looks like a Sophronitis cernua. But it is "huge" with very large flowers. I did not think the cernua could get that large flowers but there are people here on Orchidboard from Brazil that has much more experience than me.

I have a Sophronitis cernua, but the leaves and blooms are nowhere near that size. Perhaphs it's because my plant is still young, but this one looks large for a cernua. But I don't know what else it could be!

It is definitely a Sophronitis and not Cattleya rex. I believe it is a hybrid, perhaps S. cernua x S. coccinea. The growth habit appears to be a combination of both species.

It looks WAY too big to be S. cernua. The flowers look like it, but S. cernua is TINY. It might be a hybrid with S. cernua.

Thanks everyone for your input!

The size and proportions of the flower threw me off. It does have the two fleshy-looking purplish appendages on the column that cernua has, though. I only have one picture of cernua in my book, and the flower is very different from this one, but I did see similarities. After looking at other examples online, I realized my book didn't really have a good representation of it.

But I agree with all of you, I don't think it is cernua. At most it is a hybrid with cernua in it. Still, I think I rather like this fiery little flower. I think I'll try to see if I can get a division of it! Anything I should be aware of?

Thanks again everyone for helping me ID this little fireball!