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Hoya retusa Dalzell

Apocynaceae · East Himalaya, India · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

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Summary

Hoya retusa is a species of flowering plant in the genus Hoya native to India and the eastern Himalayas. It is an epiphyte.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hoya retusa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Hoya in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Hoya in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeEast Himalaya, India · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“epiphytic subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range: the one georeferenced record read lies outside it, and is not used, so no map marker or climate is derived from it.

Photographs

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Photographs: Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Hoya 56 in the reference

Hoya archboldiana Apocynaceae Hoya australis Hoya australis Samoan waxplant Photo: CC0, author not statedHoya bella Hoya bella Miniature wax plant Photo: CC BY, Jefferson Ferreira Hoya blashernaezii Apocynaceae Hoya buotii Apocynaceae Hoya campanulata Hoya campanulata Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei GanHoya carnosa Hoya carnosa Porcelainflower Photo: CC BY, 胡正恆(Jackson Hu)Hoya caudata Hoya caudata Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei Gan Hoya cordata Apocynaceae Hoya coronaria Hoya coronaria Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQ Hoya crassicaulis Apocynaceae Hoya cumingiana Hoya cumingiana Apocynaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Engeser all 57 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipedia

The record

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
Dalzell
Native to
East Himalaya, India
Wild records
none in range · 1 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its POWO identifier 98670-1 is Kew's for Hoya retusa Dalzell
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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