Biology:Hoya acicularis
| Hoya acicularis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Hoya |
| Species: | H. acicularis
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| Binomial name | |
| Hoya acicularis T.Green & Kloppenb.
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Hoya acicularis is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, native to Borneo. It is a climbing epiphyte or lithophyte.[1]
Description
In cultivation, Hoya acicularis is grown for its slender, needle-like leaves, up to about 10 cm long, the feature that gives the species its name.
Distribution and habitat
The species is native to Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo, and to Brunei.[1]
Taxonomy
The species was described by Ted Green and Robert Dale Kloppenburg in 2002 in Fraterna, the newsletter of the International Hoya Association.[2] The holotype (Green 93031) was collected in the Danum Valley, Sabah, and vouchered from material cultivated at Green's nursery in Ka'a'awa, Hawaii; it is held at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BISH).[3]
The specific epithet acicularis comes from the Latin acicula ("little needle"), a reference to the plant's narrow, needle-shaped leaves.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Hoya acicularis T.Green & Kloppenb." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20009791-1.
- ↑ Green, Ted; Kloppenburg, Dale (2002). "Hoya acicularis, sp. nov.". Fraterna 15 (4): 7.
- ↑ Rodda, Michele (2017). "Index of names and types of Hoya (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae) of Borneo". Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 69 (1): 33–65. doi:10.3850/S2010098116000039.
Wikidata ☰ Q18072803 entry
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