Plants shrubs, scramblers, or lianas; latex white. Leaves persistent or quickly falling, opposite, sometimes bractlike. Inflorescences compact or open, with few to many flowers. Corollas saucer-shaped, with exserted gynostegia, lobes glabrous to villous, interiors with or without dark, glandular centres and puberulent white spots; coronas developed from the corolla mouths, lobes simple, undivided or variously segmented; stamens developed directly below the corona lobes, anthers villous or otherwise hairy; pollen in tetrads; interstaminal nectaries distinct, lobular; stigmatic heads ovoid to broadly ovaoid; pollen translators spathulate. Follicles paired, narrowly to horizontally diversirgent; seeds with a tuft of hairs at one end.
Periploca is a genus of about 17 species. It is widely distributed in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Two species are known from Somaliland and Somalia.
Note: GBIF records include introduced and cultivated plants. Consequently, the distribution shown often differs from statements about a taxon's native distribution.