ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comprehensive review of Ancylobothrys 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 Ancylobothrys. Sarmentose shrubs or lianas, at least partly with a rusty brown indumentum, with large curled tendrils; latex present. Leaves opposite, petiolate, exstipulate. Inflorescence a long terminal panicle, with sensitive branches, these later becoming climbing hooks. Sepals green, often seemingly rusty brown by indumentum, usually without colleters. Fruit a berry, yellow to red, globose or pear-shaped or nearly so, rounded at the apex, softly velutinous. Seed with horny endosperm, surrounding the embryo.
