Macroscepis

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Macroscepis
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Macroscepis urceolata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Macroscepis
Kunth
Type species
Macroscepis obovata (syn of M. diademata) [1]
Kunth

Macroscepis is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819. [2] [3] It is native to Latin America and the West Indies. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Species [1]
  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
formerly included [1]

moved to Gonolobus, Matelea, Oxypetalum

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 The Plant List, genus Macroscepis
  2. 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
  3. Tropicos, genus Macroscepis
  4. 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
  5. Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá
  6. 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
  7. 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