Mirabilis coccinea (Torrey) Bentham & Hook (1880: 3)

Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio & Sánchez-Escalante, José Jesús, 2022, The family Nyctaginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico, Phytotaxa 575 (1), pp. 35-56 : 48

8.2. Mirabilis coccinea (Torrey) Bentham & Hook (1880: 3)

≡ Oxybaphus coccineus Torrey (in Emory 1859: 169) ≡ Allionia coccinea (Torrey) Standley (1909: 339) .

Lectotype (designated here):― UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, New Mexico, Hill sides, Copper mines and on the Mimbres , Wright 1723 (US-00102894 [image!] image available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/65665/345d12d37-e4c0-4dd0-8023-a0c7d08d4e9a; Isolectotypes: MO216365 [image!] image available at http://legacy.tropicos.org/Image/55089, K000779330 [image!] image available at http:// specimens.kew.org/herbarium/K000779330, PH 00017786 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap. specimen.ph00017786) .

Typification of the name Oxybaphus coccineus : ―Torrey (in Emory 1859: 169) cited a sintype (Wright 1723), and we found four duplicates of this collection. The specimen deposited at US (barcode US 00102894) is here designated as lectotype; it matches Torrey’s protologue and corresponds to the currect concept in Mirabilis (see e.g., Jepson Flora Project 2022, Spellenberg 2003).

Distribution in Mexico: ―It is distributed in Chihuahua and Sonora ( Villaseñor 2016). In Sonora it is distributed in the Chihuahuan Desert biogeographic province ( Fig. 4C ), in Agua Prieta and Fronteras municipalities, in Oak forest, at 1300–1700 m a.s.l.

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FIGURE 4. Distribution of the Nyctaginaceae genera in the State of Sonora. A: genera Abronia, Allionia, Acleisanthes, Okenia, and Pisonia; B: genus Boerhavia; C: genus Mirabilis; D: genera Boldoa, Commicarpus, Cyphomeris, and Salpianthus.