Wiry twiner to several metres long, latex white. Leaf blade elliptic-ovate to ovate, fleshy to succulent, flat, up to 8 cm long and 6 cm wide, green to yellow-brown, silver flecking absent, hairless; margins entire, not recurved, same colour as rest of blade; venation palminerved, with 7 veins from base; base cordate; tip acute to acuminate. Umbel negatively geotropic, convex, of 8-25 flowers in loose ball. Corolla 13-15 mm wide, yellow to salmon-apricot; lobes oblong-ovate, 6-7 mm long, 4-4.5 mm wide, weakly to strongly reflexed, hairless. Corona yellow to salmon-apricot. [H. cominsii Hemsl.]

New Caledonia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu

Leaf blade 7-nerved from base.

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.