Hoya verticillata, commonly known as claret hoya, is a species of climber in the oleander and frangipani family Apocynaceae. It is found from India to southern China, through southeast Asia to Indonesia and the Philippines. Called "Palu-lobboi" in Bangladesh.
Description This plant is a root climber but may also twine around objects, and all parts exude a white sap when broken. Leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and have 3 or 5 veins. Flowers are produced in racemes but appear to be in umbels.
Taxonomy In Australia, there are specimens known as Hoya pottsii, which Plants of the World Online (POWO) considers to be a synonym of H. verticillata, though POWO does not list Australia as part of the range of H. verticillata. Those Australian plants had been known as Hoya nicholsoniae before being renamed as H. pottsii. Mark Randal considered that the plants identified as Australian H. pottsii should still be regarded as H. nicholsoniae, a species that POWO does accept as native to Queensland, Australia.
Infraspecies , POWO accepts the following three varieties:
Hoya verticillata var. citrina Hoya verticillata var. hendersonii Hoya verticillata var. verticillata
Synonyms For H. verticillata Sperlingia verticillata For H. v. var. citrina Hoya acuta var. citrina Hoya citrina Hoya parasitica var. citrina For H. v. var. hendersonii Hoya parasitica var. hendersonii For H. v. var. verticillata Asclepias parasitica Hoya acuta Hoya amoena Hoya amoena subsp. bogorensis Hoya angustifolia Hoya balansae Hoya bawanglingensis Hoya cochinchinensis Hoya globiflora Hoya hellwigii , nom. nud. (not properly described in a publication) Hoya hookeriana Hoya nicobarica Hoya obscurinervia Hoya opposita Hoya pallida Hoya parasitica Hoya parasitica var. geoffrayi Hoya parasitica var. spirei Hoya pottsii Hoya pottsii var. angustifolia Hoya recurvula Hoya recurvula subsp. bokorensis Hoya ridleyi Hoya trinervia Hoya trinervis Hoya ubudensis Hoya wibergiae Hoya wibergiae subsp. alba Schollia cochinchinensis Sperlingia opposita Stapelia cochinchinensis , nom. utique rej. (rejected outright) Triplosperma cochinchinensis
Conservation Hoya pottsii is listed as least concern under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act. , it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Uses Parts of the plant are used for medicine in Bangladesh and India.
References
External links
View observations of this species on iNaturalist including some that are from Australia and may be misnamed. View images of this species on Flickriver.com