Trailing twiner to several metres long, latex white. Leaf blade oblanceolate, fleshy, rather flat, up to 13 cm long and 2 cm wide, green, silver flecking absent, hairless; margins entire, not recurved, same colour as rest of blade; venation penninerved, with 7 or 8 lateral veins; base cuneate; tip acuminate. Umbel positively geotropic, convex, of 5-12 flowers in loose ball. Corolla 16-17 mm wide, white, dull; lobes triangular, about 8 mm long and 8 mm wide, slightly inflexed, shaggily papillose. Corona white.

India

Closely allied to H. shepherdii.

Leaf blade oblanceolate, fairly flat.

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.