Escobedia
{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
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Escobedia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae.{{cite web |title=Escobedia Ruiz & Pav. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37636-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 May 2021 |language=en}}
Its native range is from Mexico to Southern Tropical America. It is found in the countries of; Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
The genus name of Escobedia is in honour of Jorge Escobedo y Alarcón (1743–1805), a Spanish lawyer and colonial administrator in Peru,{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} and it was first described and published in Fl. Peruv. Prodr. on page 91 in 1794.
- Escobedia brachydonta {{small|Pennell}}
- Escobedia crassipes {{small|Pennell}}
- Escobedia grandiflora {{small|(L.f.) Kuntze}}
- Escobedia guatemalensis {{small|Loes.}}
- Escobedia laevis {{small|Schltdl. & Cham.}}
- Escobedia michoacana {{small|E.Carranza & C.Medina}}
- Escobedia peduncularis {{small|Pennell}}