# Macroscepis

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{{Short description|Genus of plants}}
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|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](/source/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>
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# ''[Macroscepis aurea](/source/Macroscepis_aurea)'' <small>E.Fourn.</small> - S Brazil, NW Argentina
# ''[Macroscepis diademata](/source/Macroscepis_diademata)'' <small>(Ker Gawl.) W.D.Stevens</small> -  Mexico 
# ''[Macroscepis elliptica](/source/Macroscepis_elliptica)'' <small>N.E.Br.</small> - Brazil
# ''[Macroscepis hirsuta](/source/Macroscepis_hirsuta)'' <small>(Vahl) Schltr.</small> -  Trinidad, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
# ''[Macroscepis magnifica](/source/Macroscepis_magnifica)'' <small>Malme</small> - Serra de Caracol in São Paulo
# ''[Macroscepis pleistantha](/source/Macroscepis_pleistantha)'' <small>Donn.Sm.</small> - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
# ''[Macroscepis selloana](/source/Macroscepis_selloana)'' <small>E.Fourn.</small> - Brazil
# ''[Macroscepis urceolata](/source/Macroscepis_urceolata)'' <small>H.Karst.</small> - Colombia, Venezuela
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;formerly included<ref name=kk/>
moved to ''[Gonolobus](/source/Gonolobus), [Matelea](/source/Matelea), [Oxypetalum](/source/Oxypetalum)'' 
# ''Macroscepis dutrae'' now  ''[Gonolobus dutrae](/source/Gonolobus_dutrae)'' 
# ''Macroscepis longiflora'' now  ''[Matelea longiflora](/source/Matelea_longiflora)'' 
# ''Macroscepis retusa'' now  ''[Oxypetalum retusum](/source/Oxypetalum_retusum)''

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