ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comprehensive review of Voacanga which is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. It presents information on character, habitat, phenotypic charater and distribution of V. africana and V. thouarsii. Shrubs or trees, repeatedly dichotomously branched; bark and branchlets with some white latex. Leaves opposite; petiole or leaf bases of a pair connate into a short ochrea, with a single row of colleters in the axils. Inflorescences cymose, in pairs at the forks of branches; bracts deciduous, rarely persistent, leaving conspicuous scars. Seeds surrounded by a yellow or orange pulpy aril, numerous; endosperm copious, starchy, creamy to white, ruminate, surrounding the spatulate creamy white embryo.
