Botanical name: Hoya alexicaca    Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Hoya pendula, Hoya iconum, Asclepias alexicaca, Asclepias pendula

Konkan Wax Flower is a twining fleshy tree-dwelling shrub, branches drooping, sparsely hairy. Leaves are elliptic-lanceshaped or ovate, thick, fleshy, 4-7 x 1.5-3 cm, glossy, tip tapering, margins recurved, base pointed or rounded, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, clearly marked beneath, leaf-stalk 6 mm. Flowers are white, in short-stalked umbels, up to 1.8 cm across, carried on flower-cluster-stalk 1.2 cm long, stout. Flower-stalks are slender, up to 3 cm long. Sepal-cup is divided almost to the base, hairless. Flowers are pinwheel-shaped, reflexed, densely silky hairy within, 2.3 cm long, tube 5-7 mm; corona stamina uniseriate, fleshy, star-shaped, coronal processes as long as flower tube. Seedpods are usually solitary, up to 9 cm long, linear, tip blunt, hairless, seeds ovate-oblong, dark brown. Konkan Wax Flower is found in East & South India to Myanmar. Flowering: May-August.

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