Cyphomeris gypsophiloides (Martens & Galeotti) Standley (1911: 428)

Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio & Sánchez-Escalante, José Jesús, 2022, The family Nyctaginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico, Phytotaxa 575 (1), pp. 35-56 : 47

7.1. Cyphomeris gypsophiloides (Martens & Galeotti) Standley (1911: 428)

≡ Lindenia gypsophiloides Martens & Galeotti (1843: 358) ≡ Senkenbergia gypsophiloides (Martens & Galeotti) Bentham & Hook. f. (1880: 5) ≡ Boerhavia gypsophiloides (Martens & Galeotti) Coulter (1894: 354) .

Lectotype (here designated):― MEXICO. Puebla, dans les plaines á mimosées et á cactées de Tehuacán de las Granadas, August 1840, Galeotti 577 ( BR0000005230372 [image!] image available at https://www.botanicalcollections.be/specimen/ BR0000005230372 ).

Typification of the name Lindenia gypsophiloides :― The protologue ( Martens & Galeotti 1843: 358) consists of a description, a locality “dans les plaines á mimosées et á cactées de Tehuacán de las Granadas” and a collector “Coll. H. Gal. No. 577” (sintype according to Art. 9.6 of ICN). Here, the specimen deposited in BR (barcode BR0000005230372 ) is designated as lectotype since it is the only original material known so far.

Distribution in Mexico: ―It is reported from Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz and Zacatecas ( Sandoval-Ortega et al. 2020, Villaseñor 2016). In Sonora it is restricted to the Chihuahua Desert biogeographic province ( Fig. 4D ), and has been collected in Agua Prieta municipality, in xerophytic scrub, at 1200–1300 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.