Macroscepis

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

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|image_caption = Macroscepis urceolata

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|taxon = Macroscepis

|authority = Kunth

|type_species = Macroscepis obovata (syn of M. diademata)

|type_species_authority = Kunth

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Macroscepis is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5683#page/205/mode/1up Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1819. Macroscepis. in Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von, Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre, & Kunth, Karl Sigismund, Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 3: 200–201, t. 233] in Latin[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40011732 Tropicos, genus Macroscepis ] It is native to Latin America and the West Indies.Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MéxicoCorrea A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PanamáHokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela 1–860. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, CaracasJørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalog of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181

;Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Macroscepis The Plant List, genus Macroscepis]

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1. Macroscepis aurea E.Fourn. - S Brazil, NW Argentina
2. Macroscepis diademata (Ker Gawl.) W.D.Stevens - Mexico
3. Macroscepis elliptica N.E.Br. - Brazil
4. Macroscepis hirsuta (Vahl) Schltr. - Trinidad, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
5. Macroscepis magnifica Malme - Serra de Caracol in São Paulo
6. Macroscepis pleistantha Donn.Sm. - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
7. Macroscepis selloana E.Fourn. - Brazil
8. Macroscepis urceolata H.Karst. - Colombia, Venezuela

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;formerly included

moved to Gonolobus, Matelea, Oxypetalum

1. Macroscepis dutrae now Gonolobus dutrae
2. Macroscepis longiflora now Matelea longiflora
3. Macroscepis retusa now Oxypetalum retusum