Laelia purpurata werkhauseri, May, 1966. The color form originally called Werkhauseri (with some spelling variants) was applied to two wild-collected plants in Brazil. These plants were kept under "seven locks" for a very long time, but eventually a division of the best of the two plants was sold for an astounding price, according to contemporary accounts. The "variety" name werkhauseri was never properly published, and there is no way to be sure that most of the plants in cultivation now bearing this name, whether as a botanical variety, a horticultural form, or a cultivar, are in fact derived from the original collection. Nevertheless, the name has been widely applied and sought by collectors.