Hoya caudata IPPS07025

Hoya cordata Hook. fil. F.B.I. iv. 60: King, l.c. 568.

      Long climbing epiphyte. Leaves freshy coriaceous, ovate acuminata, base rounded or cordate, edges strongly undulate, recurved, 3 to 7 in. long; 2 to 3 in. wide; petiole very thick, .25 in. long. Pecuncles 1 in. long, stout, rechis thick, .5 to 1 in. long; pedicels filiform, .5 in. long, all grabrous. Calyx-lobes linear lanceolate grabrous. Corolla .5 to .75 in. wide, lobes oblong long caudate acuminate silverly-pilose within white suffused with pink. Corona fleshy, lower lobes horizontal, elliptic-ovate, upper with a long subulate spur. Stamen-appendiages white, thin, long, caudate acuminate. Hab. Hill forests. Malacca (Maingay); Mt. Ophir. Penang, Richmond pool (leaves smaller, edge entire, dull pink).

      var. crassifolia Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 61. P.30.
Leaves very coriaceous denticulate on the edge. Peduncles and petiole bristly-hairy. Corolla-lobes triangular cuspidate, pink,villous edged with long hairs. Perak, Tapah on the Temoh Road (Ridley).

Contribution to the Flora of Siam - 1922. P.395.

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