Boerhavia coccinea Miller (1768

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4.2. Boerhavia coccinea Miller (1768 : ND).

Neotype (designated by Meikle & Hewson 1984: 318):― JAMAICA, Locality not defined, 1730, Houston s.n.: ( BM000993062 [image!] image available at http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bm000993062).

= Boerhavia caribaea Jacquin (1771: 5) .

Lectotype (designated by Whitehouse 1996: 6):― MARTINICA, Habitantem vidi in insularum Caribaearum ruderatis, muris, ad margines semitarum in apricis & siccis, Plate 84 from Jacquin (1771).

= Boerhavia viscosa Lagasca & Rodríguez (1801: 256) .

Neotype (designated by Struwig et al. 2015: 118):― PERU. Originally from Peru , flowered during June and July in the Royal Botanic Garden , Madrid, Cavanilles s.n. ( G00439928 [image!] image available at http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/chg/adetail.php?id =408576&base=img&lang=en).

Distribution in Mexico: ―This species has been reported from Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Ciudad de México, Colima, Durango, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatán and Zacatecas ( Sandoval-Ortega et al. 2020, Villaseñor 2016). In Sonora it is distributed in Chihuahua Desert, Pacific Lowlands and Sonora biogeographic provinces ( Fig. 4B ), in Agua Prieta, Álamos, Arizpe, Bacadéhuachi, Bacoachi, Baviácora, Cananea, Cucurpe, General Plutarco Elías Calles, Guaymas, Hermosillo, Imuris, La Colorada, Moctezuma, Nogales, Onavas, Sahuaripa and Ures municipalities, in road sides, Oak Forest, subtropical forest, xerophytic scrub, desert grassland and urban areas, at 200–1500 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.