Cryptolepis oblongifolia, the red-stemmed milk rope, is a multi-stemmed shrub in the family Apocynaceae.

It is native to moist and mesic regions of southern Africa, where it occurs in rocky grassland, grassy woodland or riverine vegetation.

[3] It grows about 1m tall, and carries widely spaced, opposite leaves on the reddish-brown stems.

The yellow to reddish-yellow flowers appear in axillary clusters.

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