Identify this flowering plant? and Brasilidium forbesii, inflorescence

Identify this flowering plant?

This is a fibrous-stemmed plant about 4 feet in height growing in zone 8b. It freezes back in winter and is currently blooming. The leaves are large and opposite in arrangement. The inflorescence is about 5 or 6 inches in diameter and is more purple than it appears in the photograph.
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Answer by Sword Lily
It looks like a Pentas or Egyptian Star Cluster.

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Brasilidium forbesii, inflorescence


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ⓘ Brasilidium forbesii (Hook.) Campacci Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 3: 79. 2006.
Synonym Oncidium forbesii Hook., Bot. Mag. 65: t. 3705 (1839).

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