Wiry twiner to several metres long, latex white. Leaf blade elliptic-obovate, obovate, oblanceolate, succulent, flat, up to 13 cm long and 5 cm wide, green, silver flecking absent, hairless; margins entire, not recurved, same colour as rest of blade; venation penninerved, obscure; base cuneate; tip acute. Umbel negatively geotropic, convex, of 10-25 flowers in loose ball. Corolla 11-13 mm wide, pink; lobes broad-ovate, 4.8-5 mm long, 4.5-5 mm wide, more or less flat, shortly papillose. Corona pink-red. [H. bandaensis auct. in part, non Schltr.]

Java

Often misidentified in cultivation.

Leaf blade venation obscure; corolla pink; corona pink-red.

Source: Forster, P.; Liddle, D.; Liddle, I. (2002). Hoya. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.