Hoya flexuosa Spreng. 1825

Type description:

            In Sprengel System Vegetabilum 1 (1825) 843.  Spreng.  flexuosa *  5. H. foliis cordatis oblongis venosis, pedunculo flexuoso, corolla imberbi. Nov. Holl.

Translation: Hoya leaves cordate oblong veined, peduncles flexible, corolla beardless. from New Holland.

Other literature:

            In General System of Gardening 4 (1837) 128.  G. Don. 3. T. flexuosa (r. Br. l. c.) umbels alternate, sessile; common peduncles flexuous; leaves cordate-oblong, veiny; corolla beardless. (woody perennial. F.)  Native of New Holland, within the tropic. Hoya flexuosa, Spring. syst. I. P. 843. Flexuous Tylophora. Shrub tw.

          In Flora Australiensis 4 (1867) 336. Bentham. 9. T. flexuosa, R. Br. Prod. 460. A rather slender twiner, glabrous or the inflorescence pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate  cordate and broad, the larger ones 2 to 3 in. long or even more, the upper ones small and narrow. Flowers very small, in little clusters or sessile umbels along a slender flexuose peduncle, often longer than the leaves. Pedicel filiform, 1 to 2 lines long. Calyx-segments about 3/4 line long. Corolla scarcely 1 1/2 lines diameter. Corona-segments rather thick, but not very prominent, acuminate, the adnate points reaching to about half the length of the anthers. — Dcne. In DC Prod. Viii. 612; Hoya flexuosa, Spreng. Syst. I. 843. In Australia. Upper Victoria, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentria.

            In Queensland Flora (1900) 1006.  F. M. Bailey. T. flexuosa (flexuose), R. Br. Prod. 460; Benth, Fl. Austr. iv. 336. A rather slender twiner, glabrous or the inflorescences pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, cordate when broad, the larger ones 2 to 3 in. long or even more, the upper ones small and narrow. Flowers very small, in little clusters or sessile umbels along a slender flexuose peduncle, often longer than the leaves. Pedicels filiform, 1 to 2 lines long. Calyx-segments about ¾ line long. Corolla scarcely 1 ½ line diameter. Corona-segments rather thick, but not very prominent, acuminate, the adnate points reaching to about half the length of the anthers. — Decne. in Prod. viii. 612; Hoya flexuosa, Spreng. Syst. i. 843. Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown.