Mirabilis tenuiloba Watson (1882: 375)

Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio & Sánchez-Escalante, José Jesús, 2022, The family Nyctaginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico, Phytotaxa 575 (1), pp. 35-56 : 50-51

8.9. Mirabilis tenuiloba Watson (1882: 375) .

Lectotype (here designated):― UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, California, San Bernardino County, 1880, Wright s.n. ( GH00032689 [image!] image available at https://s3.amazonaws.com/huhwebimages/EB3 B64 C9 AD68474 /type/full/32689.jpg; isolectotype CAS0007295 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.cas0007295).

Typification of the name Mirabilis tenuiloba : ― Watson (1882: 375) published a description, a locality (“San Bernardino County, California ”), a year of collection (“1880”), and a collector (“W.G. Wright”); this citation is a sintype (Art. 9.6 of ICN). We traced two specimens of M. tenuiloba collected by W.G. Wright in 1880 deposited in two different herbaria (barcodes GH00032689 and CAS0007295, the latter one probably bearing fragments from the specimen in GH). GH00032689 is here designated as lectotype since it is most complete than CAS0007295, shows flowers and mature anthocarps, matches Watson’s protologue, and corresponds to the currect concept in Mirabilis (see e.g., Jepson Flora Project 2022, Spellenberg 2003). Note that on GH00032689 there is a pencil annotation that reads: according to note on Parish 6072, type station is “West Canyon, western edge of the Colorado Desert.”.

Distribution in Mexico: ―It is reported from Baja California, Baja California Sur and Sonora ( Villaseñor 2016). In Sonora it is distributed in Baja California and Sonoran biogeographic provinces ( Fig. 4C ), in Hermosillo (Isla Tiburón and Isla San Esteban) and San Luis Río Colorado municipalities, at 100–400 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.