8.7. Mirabilis melanotricha (Standley) Spellenberg (1998: 99)

≡ Allionia melanotricha Standley (1909: 351–352) .

Type: ― UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Arizona, Barfoot Park, in the Chiricahua Mountains, 17 September 1906, Blumer 1385 (holotype NMC9841; isotypes: MO 216434 [image!] image available at http://legacy.tropicos.org/Image/35994, MIN1000096 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.min1000096, GH00037299 [image!] image available at https:// s3.amazonaws.com/huhwebimages/099 AD5 A48398476 /type/full/37299.jpg, RM0002988 [image!] image available at https://plants. jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.rm0002988 NY 312036 [image!], BRIT23268 [image!] image available at https://plants. jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.brit23268, CAS0371998 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/ al.ap.specimen.cas0371998, NEBV-0000449 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen. neb-v-0000449, B10-0294520 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.b_10_0294520, US00102927 [image!] image available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/65665/38f445a48-3d80-435b-937b-3fbce61ce2e8, US 00102928 [image!] image available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/65665/328617c81-020d-469f-9e8f-a16e1186b831) .

Distribution in Mexico: ―It is reported from Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tlaxcala and Veracruz (Villaseñor 2016). In Sonora it is distributed in the Chihuahua Desert biogeographic province (Fig. 4C), in Fronteras municipality, in Pine-Oak forest, at 2300 m a.s.l.