Tapinanthus bangwensis is a species of hemiparasitic plant in the family Loranthaceae, which is native to the tropics of western sub-Saharan Africa.

It has a pendulous stem of up to 2 meters long, and the branchlets are abundantly covered with brown lenticels.

The perianth tube is red at the bottom, becoming pink in the middle, and grey at the lobes.

[2] Its tricolporate pollen grain is oblate-spheroidal and rather large (40 x 43.5 μm) with its amb a truncated triangle, not unlike that of T.

These include Acacia farnesiana, A. nilotica, Alchornea cordifolia, Cola nitida, Coffea liberica, Crossopteryx, Croton, Machaerium, Manihot, Terminalia catappa and Theobroma.