Hoya · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
OverviewAI-generated
Hoya is a genus of plants within the family Apocynaceae. It belongs to the tribe Marsdenieae and is classified in the order Gentianales, class Magnoliopsida, and phylum Tracheophyta. The genus has common names including Waxflowers, Wachsblumen, and Plantas de cera.
The species have been introduced to Cuba, Korea, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Society Is., and Trinidad-Tobago. Records from various institutions indicate presence in the United States, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. The genus is documented in the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyApocynaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,243
- With media
- 816
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Collections
- NY, A, GH, US, MO
- Recorded in
- United States, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam
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Encyclopedic overview
Hoya carnosa Hoya mindorensis, Sydney, Australia.
Hoya is a genus of over 500 species of plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, commonly known as waxflowers. Plants in the genus Hoya are mostly epiphytic or lithophytic vines, rarely subshrubs, with leathery, fleshy or succulent leaves, shortly tube-shaped or bell-shaped flowers with five horizontally spreading lobes, the flowers in umbels or racemes, and spindle-shaped or cylindrical to oval follicles containing flattened egg-shaped to oblong seeds.
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