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Hoya ovalifolia

Scientific Name
Hoya ovalifolia
Family Name
Asclepiadaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Gonika (Sri Lanka)
Description
A twining shrub with rather stout. glabrous stems thickened at the nodes : leaves 4-7.5cm long, 2.5-3.5cm broad, oval, slightly tapering or rounded at the base, shortly acuminate, acute. thick. glabrous, paler beneath, petioles 2-4mm long and stout flowers regular, bisexual in axillary umbeis. pcdiccls 1 .5- l.7cm long, glabrous, peduncle stout, stiff and as long as leaves calyx segments 5, small, acute. giabrous corolla rotate. fleshy. about 8 nim across, glabrous. lobes 5. broad, subacute, valvate, column large and prominent, coronal processes spreadin stelfatclv, ovate, pointed, thick, horny, shortly spurred at the base and adnate to the stamens: stamens 5, connate, anther membranous, covering over the top of the stigma fruit not seen. Flowers during March. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Fractures (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak
Remarks
Hoya ovalifolia (IPNI)

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