Hoya diversifolia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Hoya diversifolia Blume

Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind. 16: 1064 (1827).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: akar susudu bukit (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: akar sesudu bukit, akar serapat, akar chaping kera (Peninsular)
• Thailand: lin khwaai (Songkhla)
• Vietnam: hoa sao khác lá.

Distribution

Southern Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Java.

Uses

In Peninsular Malaysia and Vietnam, the water in which leaves have been boiled is used as a bath to treat rheumatism.

Observations

A climber with branches up to 4 m long; leaves broadly ovate to obovate-oblong, up to 14 cm × 5 cm, fleshy, petiole up to 1.5 cm long; flowers 9-14 mm in diameter, corolla pale outside, tinged with violet and densely appressed white-hairy inside, shallowly lobed, lobes with recurved top; follicle lanceolate, c. 13 cm long. H. diversifolia occurs as an epiphyte or terrestrial in open forest, but also on wayside trees, up to 400 m altitude, and is common.

Selected sources

31, 62, 121, 789.

Main genus page

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Authors

Muhammad Mansur