Alafia landolphioides grows as a liana up to long, with a stem diameter of up to 2.5cm (01inches). Its fragrant flowers feature a white corolla, dark red at the throat. The fruit is dark brown with paired cylindrical follicles, each up to in diameter.
Its habitat is forest and savanna, from sea-level to altitude. Local medicinal uses include as a treatment for rheumatism. The plant has been used as arrow poison.[1] Alafia landolphioides grows natively in countries from Senegal in the west through West Africa to the Democratic Republic of Congo.