Macroscepis is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819.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 LatinTropicos, 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
SpeciesThe Plant List, genus Macroscepis
formerly included moved to Gonolobus, Matelea, Oxypetalum Macroscepis dutrae now Gonolobus dutrae Macroscepis longiflora now Matelea longiflora Macroscepis retusa now Oxypetalum retusum
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