Many butterfly larvae eat the leaves of this plant, including Chaetocneme beata, Chaetocneme critomedia, Chaetocneme porphyropis, Graphium sarpedon, Trapezites phigalia and Trapezites petalia.
Graphium sarpedon | ''Sarpedon carried away by Sleep and Death'', by Henry Fuseli | Mimicry ring involving ''Graphium ridleyanus'', ''Acraea egina | Graphium ridleyanus | Graphium fulleri | Graphium evemon | Graphium eurypylus | Graphium alebion |