Boerhavia gracillima Heimerl (1889: 81–87)

Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio & Sánchez-Escalante, José Jesús, 2022, The family Nyctaginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico, Phytotaxa 575 (1), pp. 35-56 : 43

4.5. Boerhavia gracillima Heimerl (1889: 81–87) .

Lectotype (designated by Standley 1911: 421):― MEXICO. Chihuahua, rocky hills near Chihuahua, 15 August 1885, Pringle 665 ( WU0033299 [image!] image available at https://wu.jacq.org/ WU0033299 ; isolectotype GOET008279 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.goet008279).

Distribution in Mexico: ― Boerhavia gracillima is reported from Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas y Zacatecas ( Sandoval-Ortega et al. 2020). In Sonora it is distributed in Sonora biogeographic province ( Fig. 4B ), and has been collected in Álamos, Cajeme, Cucurpe, Guaymas, Hermosillo, La Colorada, Onavas, Sahuaripa and Yécora municipalities, in xerophytic scrub, 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.