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Hoya lacunosa

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Blume

Propagation

C.L.S.

Common Names

• Lie ban qiu lan (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Johore
• Malacca
• Perak - Malaysia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Singapore

Natural Habitats

• Lowland & hill forest.

Flowering Times

• All year (Indonesia)

Fruiting Times

Twining slender glabrous epiphytic or lithophytic climber or creeper with umbels of 7mm white or greenish-yellow flowers with violet spots, corolla white-velvety inside to 6mm across with triangular lobes, follicles to 70mm long, adventitous roots, epiphytic subshrub, glabrous fleshy leaves, lacunose above to 45mm x 20mm

Cultivated for medicinal uses

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• de Candolle
• Botanicus
• FOMP
• GBS
• Kew