Hoya lanceolaria
Hoya lanceolaria was described by Spencer Moore in 1916 from Cecil Boden Kloss's 1913 collections on the Wollaston expedition to the Utakwa River region of Dutch New Guinea, now Papua province, Indonesia. The holotype is the only record on GBIF and carries no elevation; Kloss collected from the swampy lowlands up to the snowline, so the species could sit anywhere in the lower part of that transect. It is not known to be in cultivation, so the profile is built from the measured site at 444 m and from other New Guinea hoyas.
Where it grows wild
Not described in any source reached. New Guinea hoyas of this region are epiphytic climbers in humid lowland and hill rainforest, on trunks and in the lower canopy along rivers.
The holotype carries no elevation; the measured site is at 444 m on the southern foothills of the central range, and the true elevation could be from near sea level to well over 1,000 m.
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