Microdesmia

{{Short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Oiticica no Boqueirão.jpg

|image_caption = Microdesmia rigida

|taxon = Microdesmia

|authority = (Benth.) Sothers & Prance

}}

Microdesmia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae.{{cite web |title=Microdesmia (Benth.) Sothers & Prance {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77156124-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is Mexico to Southern Tropical America. Microdesmia consists of species formerly placed in the genus Licania.{{cite journal |author1=C.A. Sothers |author2=G.T. Prance |author3=M.W. Chase |author2-link=Ghillean Prance |title=Towards a monophyletic Licania: a new generic classification of the polyphyletic Neotropical genus Licania (Chrysobalanaceae) |date=December 2016 |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=71 |issue=58 |doi=10.1007/S12225-016-9664-3|bibcode=2016KewBu..71...58S }}

Species:

• Microdesmia arborea {{small|(Seem.) Sothers & Prance}}
• Microdesmia rigida {{small|(Benth.) Sothers & Prance}}