ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comprehensive review of Wrightia 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 W. demartiniana. Shrubs or trees, occasionally climbers; white latex present. Leaves opposite, with colleters in the axils. Inflorescence terminal, dichasial or monochasial, few to many-flowered. Sepals almost free, imbricate, with 1–2 alternate colleters within. Fruit of two follicles, completely connate or only at the extreme base and sometimes at the apex, dehiscent throughout by an adaxial slit. Seeds numerous, narrowly fusiform, not beaked, with an apical coma directed towards the base of the fruit; testa thin, smooth; endosperm absent.
