{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Florae Columbiae (Plate CLXI) (8204892411).jpg |image_caption = ''Macroscepis urceolata'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Macroscepis |authority = Kunth |type_species = ''Macroscepis obovata'' (syn of ''M. diademata'')<ref name=kk/> |type_species_authority = Kunth }}
'''''Macroscepis ''''' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819.<ref>[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</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40011732 Tropicos, genus ''Macroscepis'' ]</ref> It is native to Latin America and the West Indies.<ref>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, México</ref><ref>Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá</ref><ref>Hokche, O., P. E. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela 1–860. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela, Caracas</ref><ref>Jørgensen, 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</ref>
;Species<ref name=kk>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Macroscepis The Plant List, genus ''Macroscepis'']</ref> {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''Macroscepis aurea'' <small>E.Fourn.</small> - S Brazil, NW Argentina # ''Macroscepis diademata'' <small>(Ker Gawl.) W.D.Stevens</small> - Mexico # ''Macroscepis elliptica'' <small>N.E.Br.</small> - Brazil # ''Macroscepis hirsuta'' <small>(Vahl) Schltr.</small> - Trinidad, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela # ''Macroscepis magnifica'' <small>Malme</small> - Serra de Caracol in São Paulo # ''Macroscepis pleistantha'' <small>Donn.Sm.</small> - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica # ''Macroscepis selloana'' <small>E.Fourn.</small> - Brazil # ''Macroscepis urceolata'' <small>H.Karst.</small> - Colombia, Venezuela }}
;formerly included<ref name=kk/> moved to ''Gonolobus, Matelea, Oxypetalum'' # ''Macroscepis dutrae'' now ''Gonolobus dutrae'' # ''Macroscepis longiflora'' now ''Matelea longiflora'' # ''Macroscepis retusa'' now ''Oxypetalum retusum''
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Category:Asclepiadoideae Category:Apocynaceae genera
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