Allionia incarnata Linnaeus [1759: 883

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3.1. Allionia incarnata Linnaeus [1759: 883 (890, 1361)].

Neotype (designated by Dorr & Wiersema 2010: 1572):― VENEZUELA. Mérida, Sucre, Las González-San José road, near the village of Las González , ca. 20 km Southwest of Mérida, 9–10 September 1990, Dorr & Barnett 7674 (US01049571 [image!] image available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/65665/3ebf4a20c-da12-4175-90ee-d626322751b5; isoneotypes: NY, PORT, VEN).

Distribution in Mexico: ― Allionia incarnata has been reported from Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas ( Sandoval-Ortega et al. 2020). In Sonora it is distributed in the Chihuahuan Desert, Pacific Lowlands and Sonoran biogeographic provinces ( Fig. 4A ), and has been collected in Agua Prieta, Arizpe, Baviácora, Cucurpe, Granados, Guaymas, Hermosillo, Huásabas, Imuris, Moctezuma, Navojoa, Pitiquito, Puerto Peñasco, Sahuaripa, Santa Cruz, Sáric, Soyopa, Tubutama, Ures, Villa Pesqueira and Yécora municipalities and in some islands (Isla Tiburón and Isla Dátil), in beach dunes and sandy soils of xerophytic and subtropical scrub, desert grassland, open Oak forest and roadsides, at 0–1600 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.