(1865) Griffonia is a genus of central African flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.

[citation needed] The genus includes four species of scandent shrubs and lianas native to west and west-central tropical Africa, ranging from Liberia to DR Congo and Angola.

They grow in humid tropical forests, swamp forests, and thickets in coastal wooded grassland.

[3] The genus Griffonia was named by Henri Baillon in honour of his friend and fellow physician Marie-Théophile Griffon du Bellay, explorer of Gabon, pioneer in the study of sleeping sickness and also of the African entheogen Iboga, source of the alkaloid ibogaine.

[4] Griffonia comprises the following species:[1][5][6][7][3] This Fabaceae-related article is a stub.