Hoya eitapensis
Hoya eitapensis was described by Schlechter in 1913 from north-eastern New Guinea and named for Eitape, now Aitape, on the Sepik coast. The two wild records lie inland in the Southern Highlands and Morobe hill country at roughly 750 to 1400 m, where the climate is warm, evenly wet and never dry, so it grows as a warm-intermediate hoya with cool-ish nights.
Where it grows wild
Presumed an epiphytic vine of hill and lower montane rainforest, climbing trunks and branches under a broken canopy in a region with rain in every month; nothing beyond the original description is published.
The records sit at about 750 and 1400 m; the type locality at Aitape is near sea level, so the species probably spans the lowlands to lower montane forest.
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