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Hoya acuminata
Hoya acuminata is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, native to a stretch of Asia from the eastern Himalaya to Indochina.
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Description
Hoya acuminata is an epiphytic shrub with erect stems and pendulous branches. The leaves are opposite, elliptic to lanceolate, 4 to 10 cm long and 2 to 3.5 cm wide, glossy and fleshy, and taper to a long point, the feature that gives the species its name. Terminal umbels of two to three flowers open white with pink centers between May and July.
Range & habitat
The species ranges from the eastern Himalaya through Myanmar to Indochina. In India it has long been known from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, and was recorded for the first time in Nagaland in 2023, in the Kohima district at about 1,721 m elevation.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 804824.