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Hoya affinis
Hoya affinis is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, native to the Solomon Islands.
From the article Hoya affinis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Hoya affinis is a perennial, twining climber with thick, fleshy, elliptical leaves 7.5 to 10 cm long and 4.3 to 5 cm wide. Its umbels of three to twelve flowers reach up to 3.8 cm across, with thick, fleshy, weakly fragrant petals in shades of red to orange-yellow.
Range & habitat
The species is native to Nggela Island in the Solomon Islands, where it grows in tropical forest at low elevation, not far above sea level.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 804825.