Hoya koteka
Hoya koteka was described by Simonsson and Rodda in 2017 from southern lowland New Guinea, its name taken from the traditional Papuan gourd. The only wild records are 1907 Lorentz expedition specimens from the Geitenkamp camp on the swampy southern plain, so it is a hot, wet lowland epiphyte that wants warmth all year.
Where it grows wild
An epiphytic climber in lowland rainforest of the southern New Guinea plain; the 1907 herbarium labels say only forest. The type region is flat, swampy and hot.
The georeferenced site sits at about 60 m in the southern lowlands. No record indicates hill or montane forest.
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