Hoya elegans Kosteletsky 1917

Type description:

            In Rumphius’ Herbarium Amboinensis (1917) 439.  “Interpretations of Rumphius’ Herb. Amb.”  E. D. Merrill.  Hoya elegans Kostel. Allgem. Med. Pharm. Fl. 3 (1834) 1084 (type!)         Nummularia lactea major III (albo-purpurea) Rmph. Herb. Amb. 5:471. Amboina, Soja and Hitoc messen, Robinson Pl. Rumph. Amb. 83, 604. August and October, 1913, in light forests, altitude 175 to 300 meters, locally known as hunga nasi.
Hasskarl, Neu Schlüssel (1866) 148, thought that this Rumphian form might be a synonym of Hoya macrophylla Blume, a species originally described from Javan material. Hoya elegans Kostel. Was based wholly on the Rumphian description, and this name is here retained.