ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comprehensive review of Tabernaemontana 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 T. elegans, T. odoratissima, and T. pachysiphon. Shrubs or trees repeatedly dichotomously branched; latex present in most parts; bark smooth or rough, usually with large lenticels; branches with large lenticels and conspicuous leaf scars; branchlets terete, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal or in forks, corymbose; bracts deciduous, with colleters in axils, leaving large scars. Fruit of two separate or rarely basally united mericarps, subglobose to pod-like, baccate, dehiscent or not; aril pulpy, white, orange or red.
