17; see text Anthonotha is a genus within the subfamily Detarioideae of the plant family Fabaceae.

The first species of the genus was described in 1806 by Palisot de Beauvois based on a specimen collected in West Africa and named Anthonotha macrophylla P.Beauv.

[3] Vouapa later became a junior synonym since the conserved name of Macrolobium was favored for the genus described by Johann Schreber in 1789.

The species Anthonotha macrophylla continued under the illegitimate name Macrolobium palisotii described by Bentham in 1865.

[12][13] A prehistoric species, Anthonotha shimaglae, has been reported from the early Miocene of Ethiopia and is a component of an ancient forest dominated by Englerodendron.