Stephanotis volubilis(L.f.) S.Reuss, Liede & Meve

WFO wfo-1000031051 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. a Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-26 / obs. 200682510
Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197809437
Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196994837
Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by 謝麗霦
fig. d 謝麗霦, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179235224
Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by lansan
fig. e lansan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182724186
Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 177546349
Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by S.MORE
fig. g S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154912513
Stephanotis volubilis, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173565268

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Stephanotis volubilis is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralChina SoutheastTaiwanAssamBangladeshCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaThailandVietnamWest Himalaya Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Stephanotis volubilis, 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
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Nicobar Is. NCB
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
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.

Flowering 54 in flower of 81 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Stephanotis volubilis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 54 of 81 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 31 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.

  • Apocynum tiliifolium Lam.
  • Asclepias viridiflora Roxb. ex Decne.
  • Asclepias volubilis L.f.
  • Cynanchum viridiflorum Ker Gawl. ex Spreng.
  • Dregea angustifolia (Hook.f.) Santapau & Irani
  • Dregea formosana T.Yamaz.
  • Dregea lanceolata (T.Cooke) Santapau & Wagh
  • Dregea pubescens (Miq.) Boerl.
  • Dregea viridiflora Fern.-Vill.
  • Dregea volubilis (L.f.) Benth. ex Hook.f.
  • Dregea volubilis var. glabra Costantin
  • Dregea volubilis var. lacuna (Buch.-Ham. ex Wight) Hook.f.
  • Dregea volubilis var. viridiflora (Hassk.) Kuntze
  • Hoya carnosa var. formosana (T.Yamaz.) S.S.Ying
  • Hoya formosana T.Yamaz.
  • Hoya lacuna Buch.-Ham. ex Wight
  • Hoya viridiflora R.Br.
  • Hoya volubilis (L.f.) Griff.
  • Marsdenia lanceolata T.Cooke
  • Marsdenia volubilis (L.f.) T.Cooke
  • Marsdenia volubilis var. lacuna (Buch.-Ham. ex Wight) V.S.Kumar & Karthik.
  • Schollia volubilis J.Jacq. ex Steud.
  • Tylophora macrantha Hance
  • Wattakaka angustifolia (Hook.f.) S.D.Deshp.

and 7 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. 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.

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