Commicarpus scandens (Linnaeus, 1753) Standley, 1909

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

6.1. Commicarpus scandens (L.) author (1909: 373)

≡ Boerhavia scandens Linnaeus (1753a: 3) .

Lectotype (designated by Kellogg 1988: 178):― JAMAICA, tab. 226, f. 7 in Plukenet (1692).

Distribution in Mexico: ― Commicarpus scandens is reported from Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán and Zacatecas ( Sandoval-Ortega 2020). In Sonora it is distributed in Chihuahuan Desert, Pacific Lowlands, Sierra Madre Occidental and Sonoran biogeographic provinces ( Fig. 4D ), it has been collected in Agua Prieta, Arizpe, Bacoachi, Baviácora, General Plutarco Elías Calles, Guaymas, Hermosillo, Huásabas, Huatabampo, Imuris, Mazatán, Nácori Chico, Nacozari de García, Navojoa, Nogales, Onavas, Opodepe, Pitiquito, San Ignacio, Soyapa, Ures and Yécora municipalities and insular territory (Isla Tiburón and Isla Huivulai), in xerophytic scrub, tropical deciduous forest and subtropical scrub, at 0–1500 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.