[1] The flowering species grows in the tropical environments of central Africa, and is renown in traditional Nigerian medicine for treating sexual impotence, the common cold, diarrhea, and most notably, its potent hypoglycemic effect.

Recent research has been conducted, looking in to the species' potential anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial, and antioxidant bioactivities and mechanisms of action.

[2] Much of the taxonomical redundancy seen in A. mannii likely stems from a few minor failures of its founding taxonomist—Nicholas Edward Brown.

Brown's failure to recognize the "generic unity" between species from the genera Marsdenia and Anisopus—especially in misidentifying specific features/outgrowths of the corolla, corona, tubercule, and pedicel shape.

[3] Anisopus mannii possesses slightly green flowers in globose lateral umbelliform cymes.