Hoya australis subsp. tenuipes
The leathery-leaved rainforest subspecies of Hoya australis, a slender twining vine of lowland rainforest and swamp forest in north-east Queensland, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Melanesia. It often grows over rocks and boulders or climbs into trees at rainforest margins. It is a warmer, wetter plant than southern Australian H. australis and does not need a cold winter.
Where it grows wild
Lowland rainforest and swamp forest, often over rocks or boulders. Herbarium labels from Queensland mention rainforest margins, complex vine forest on granite, closed forest over rocky outcrops, beachfront and swamp forest behind mangroves, and one plant high in a strangler fig. In New Guinea it has been collected in mature lowland rainforest.
The Queensland flora gives near sea level to 400 m. Herbarium labels run to about 1000 m (Undara crater) in Queensland and 1350 m in the Southern Highlands of New Guinea.
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