- Family : ASCLEPIADACEAE
(Milkweed Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AAK FAMILY (आक फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Apocynaceae
- Synonym(s) : Asclepias parasitica Wall. ex Hornem; Hoya acuta Haw; Hoya amoena Bakh.f.; Hoya amoena subsp. bogorensis T.Green & Kloppenb.; Hoya angustifolia Traill; Hoya balansae Costantin; Hoya bawanglingensis Shao Y.He & P.T.Li; 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 Hornem.) Wight; Hoya parasitica var. geoffrayi Costantin; Hoya parasitica var. spirei Costantin; Hoya pottsii Lindl.; Hoya pottsii var. angustifolia (Traill) Y.Tsiang & P.T.Li; Hoya recurvula Kloppenb.; Hoya recurvula subsp. bokorensis Kloppenb. & Yap; Hoya ridleyi King & Gamble; Hoya trinervia Regel; Hoya trinervis Lindl.; Hoya ubudensis Kloppenb. & Yap; Hoya wibergiae Kloppenb.; Hoya wibergiae subsp. alba Kloppenb.; Schollia cochinchinensis (Lour.) J.Jacq.; Sperlingia opposita Vahl; Stapelia cochinchinensis Lour.; Triplosperma cochinchinensis (Lour.) G.Don
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Hoya verticillata var. verticillata
- Habit : Climber
- Comments / notes : Epiphytic
- Key identification features : Tall climbers; stem and branches stout, glabrous; Leaves very variable, thickly fleshy or coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, acute or acuminate; Inflrorescence axiliary or terminal, dcense umbel; Flowers white, centre purplish; corona pinkish, lobes lanceolate; Follicles long, straight, glabrous.
- Flower, Fruit : June-July
- Distribution :
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Kendrapara district, Mayurbhanj district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Tirap
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India incl. Andamans, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malacca
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 168-170
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Hoya parasitica. Downloaded on 16 October 2024.
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