Hoya versteegii was discovered around 1913 in Western New Guinea on a Dutch expedition by the ship’s doctor Gerard Versteeg.
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Hoya versteegii was discovered around 1913 in Western New Guinea on a Dutch expedition by the ship’s doctor Gerard Versteeg.