Hoya australis subsp. sanae (F.M.Bailey) K.D.Hill

Hill, K.D. (1989) Telopea 3(2): 251.

Wax Flower

A slender vine not exceeding a stem diameter of 2 cm.

Twigs, petioles and leaves produce a milky exudate. Leaf blades thick and fleshy, about 4-6 x 1.5-2.5 cm, margins strongly recurved, petioles about 0.5-0.7 cm long. Colleters absent.

Inflorescence an umbelliform raceme which produces flowers over a long period of time. Flowers waxy, perfumed, about 12-14 mm diam. Calyx lobes about 2 mm long, hairy on the outer surface. Corolla lobes about 6 x 4 mm, clothed in short, erect hairs on both the inner and outer surfaces. Corona about 5 mm diam., the radiating lobes fleshy, about 2 x 1.5 mm, flattened on the upper surface. Pollen aggregated in pollinia. Style head about 1.3 x 1.2 mm. Carpels 1.2 mm long. Ovules numerous.

Fruits fusiform, about 9-13 cm long. Fide Forster & Liddle (1996a).

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Endemic to CYP. Altitudinal range quite small, from near sea level to 250 m. Grows in beach forest, vine thicket and monsoon forest particularly on old sand dunes.