Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2013-10-25
Page range: 56–60
Abstract views: 100
PDF downloaded: 38

Hoya nuttiana (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae), a new species from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

Singapore Botanic Gardens Herbarium
Research Associate at National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea.
Apocynaceae Asclepiadoideae new species

Abstract

A new species, Hoya nuttiana Rodda & Simonsson, endemic of Sarawak, Malaysia is described and illustrated. George Derby Haviland and Charles Hose first collected the species in Sarawak in 1894. More recent collections were made in 1987 and 2007. Hoya nuttiana can be separated from all published Hoya species because it is the only known species with globular inflorescences of up to 100 flowers with campanulate corollas bearing a stalked gynostegium.