Dendropithecus is an extinct genus of apes native to East Africa between 20 and 15 million years ago.

Dendropithecus was originally suggested to be related to modern gibbons, based primarily on similarities in size, dentition, and skeletal adaptations.

[3] Dental microwear of Dendropithecus suggests that it was a generalist frugivore that had the ability to fall back on folivory if necessary.

[1] D. ugandensis, known primarily from material from Napak, Uganda, is morphologically similar to D. macinnesi, but is 15-20% smaller than the type species.

[5] An additional species, D. orientalis, was described in 1990 from middle Miocene deposits in northern Thailand, but was transferred to the pliopithecid genus Dionysopithecus in 1999.