Hoya verticillata(Vahl) G.Don

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WFO wfo-0001102114 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Hoya verticillata, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. a Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-12 / obs. 196977843
Hoya verticillata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. b Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 62413401
Hoya verticillata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. c Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61565639
Hoya verticillata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. d Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60945799
Hoya verticillata, photographed by Gerard Chartier
fig. e Gerard Chartier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61565640
Hoya verticillata, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. f Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196977830
Hoya verticillata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. g Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138521798
Hoya verticillata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. h Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138521811

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Hoya verticillata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Hoya verticillata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 37 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Asclepias parasitica Wall. ex Hornem.
  • Asclepias parasitica Roxb.
  • Hoya acuta Haw.
  • Hoya acuta var. citrina (Ridl.) D.H.Kent
  • Hoya albens Miller. ex Steud.
  • Hoya amoena Bakh.f.
  • Hoya amoena subsp. bogorensis T.Green & Kloppenb.
  • Hoya balansae Costantin
  • Hoya bawanglingensis Shao Y.He & P.T.Li
  • Hoya citrina Ridl.
  • Hoya cochinchinensis (Lour.) Schult.
  • Hoya globiflora Ridl.
  • Hoya hellwigii Warb. ex K.Schum. & Lauterb.
  • Hoya hookeriana Wight
  • Hoya nicobarica R.Br. ex J.Traill
  • Hoya obscurinervia Merr.
  • Hoya opposita (Vahl) G.Don
  • Hoya pallida Lindl.
  • Hoya parasitica Wall. ex Traill
  • Hoya parasitica (Wall. ex Hornem.) Wight
  • Hoya parasitica var. citrina (Ridl.) Rintz
  • Hoya parasitica var. hendersonii Kiew
  • Hoya perakensis Ridl.
  • Hoya recurvula Kloppenb.

and 13 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.