Boldoa purpurascens Cavanilles ex Lagasca

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

5.1. Boldoa purpurascens Cavanilles ex Lagasca (in Lagasca 1816: 10)

≡ S. purpurascens (Cavanilles ex Lagasca) Hooker & Arnott (1841: 308) .

Lectotype (designated by Spellenberg 2001: 93):― CUBA, Hab. in Cuba insula, Boldo s.n. ( MA 235211 [image!] image available at http://161.111.171.57/herbarioV/visorVCat.php?img=MA-01-00235211; isotype MA 235212 [image!] image available at http://161.111.171.57/herbarioV/visorVCat.php?img=MA-01-00235212).

Distribution in Mexico: ―This species is reported from Chiapas, Colima, Estado de México, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Sonora and Veracruz ( Hernández-Ledesma 2021). In Sonora it is distributed in Pacific Lowlands biogeographic province ( Fig. 4D ), in Álamos and Yécora municipalities, in tropical deciduous forest and subtropical scrub, at 200–800 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.