Matelea amazonica Morillo (1977) Riparoampelos amazonicus is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae.

It is the sole species in genus Riparoampelos.

It is a climber native the Amazon Rainforest of southeastern Colombia, Amazonas state of southern Venezuela, eastern Peru, and northwestern Brazil.

[1] The species was first described as Matelea amazonica by Gilberto N. Morillo in 1977.

In 2015 Morillo renamed it Riparoampelos amazonicus, placing it in its own monotypic genus.