Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoya of the month - H. obscura - March 2006, 0 by NightBloomer54

NightBloomer54 wrote:
A.D.E. Elmer discovered Hoya obscura in July 1916 at Irosin (Mt. Bulusun) Province of Sorsogon, island of Luzon, Philippines.
Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer was born in 1870 in Vandyne, Wisconsin, and died in a prison camp in Manila, Luzon, Philippines, in 1942. He was educated at Washington Agricultural College and received a masters degree from Stanford in 1903. He settled as a plant collector in the Philippines in 1904, first working for the Bureau of Science. He was the editor of the Leaflets of Philippine Botany, in which more than 1500 new species were described. Because Elmer failed to include Latin diagnoses or descriptions for names he published after 1934, about 50 of his specimens were not validly published