Hoya flavida P.I.Forst. & D.J.Liddle

Wiry twiner to several metres long, latex white. Leaf blade elliptic to ovate, leathery, flat, up to 14 cm long and 4.5 cm wide, green, silver flecking absent, hairless; margins entire, not recurved, same colour as rest of blade; venation penninerved, with 4 lateral veins; base cuneate; tip acute to acuminate. Umbel positively geotropic, concave, of 10-20 flowers in tight ball. Corolla 10-15 mm wide, pale yellow to yellow-pink; lobes ovate, 5-5.5 mm long, 4.5-5 mm wide, slightly reflexed, shortly papillose. Corona yellow-pink. [H. sp. Mt Gallego]

Solomon Islands

Leaf blade with 4 lateral veins; corolla yellow to yellow-pink.

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.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Gentianales
family       Apocynaceae
genus        Hoya R.Br.