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Hoya verticillata
Hoya verticillata
- Botanic Family
- Apocynaceae
- Author
- (Vahl) G. Don
Common Names
- Payaung-pan (Myanmar)
- Pargachha (India)
- Nom Phi Chit (Thailand)
- Dok Tan (Laos)
- Dok than (Laos)
- San mai qiu lan (Pinyin)
- Common Waxflower
- Wax Plant
Geographical Habitats
- Queensland - Australia
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan
- Macao
- Taiwan
- Yunnan - China
- Fiji
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Laos
- Johore
- Kedah
- Lankawi
- Malacca
- Pahang
- Penang
- Perak
- Perlis
- Pulao - Malaysia
- Myanmar
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Samoa
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Coastal forest
- streamside
- montane rain forest
- estuarine forest
- woodland
- riverside
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Tall evergreen, twining stem-rooting hemi-epiphytic or lithophytic shrub or liana often with adventitious roots, pubescent young stems becoming glabrous, with purple spots on young stems. Glabrous succulently coriaceous fleshy leaves to 204mm x 132mm with some purple spots and red edges. Axillary umbels of up to 40, fragrant, 20mm pearly white & pink or yellowish flowers with white, purple or crimson centres, sepals pubescent on back, to 5.6mm x 2.6mm, creamy-white corolla glabrous on back slightly pubescent on front, to 21mm diameter, with lobes to 7mm x 5mm, corona lobes to 4mm x 2.5mm, white with purplish centre. Glabrous dark purple follicles to 200 x 8mm
Medicinal uses
Further References
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- USNH
- Botanicus
- GBS
- Huxley 1992
- Thai F.
- JDH
- de Candolle
- F Indochine
- Novon
- Fedde
- Jones & Gray 1977
- Wrigley & Fagg 1979
- Bodkin
- FA
- FS
- JFM
- FOMP
- GBS
- Bailey 1976
- FOC
- NYBG
- Llamas
- Ellison 1995
- Kew