8.3. Mirabilis jalapa Linnaeus (1753a: 177)

≡ Nyctago jalapa (Linnaeus) Candolle (in Lamarck & Candolle 1815: 426).

Lectotype (designated by Larsen 1989: 108):― Habitat in India utraque (LINN240.2 [image!] image available at https://linnean-online. org/1827/#?s=0&cv=0) .

Distribution in Mexico:― It is reported to all the country (Hernández-Ledesama 2018). In Sonora it is distributed in Chihuahuan Desert, Pacific Lowlands and Sierra Madre Occidental biogeographic provinces (Fig. 4C), and has been collected in Agua Prieta, Cananea, Magdalena, Navojoa and Yécora, in tropical deciduous forest, Oak forest and around urban areas, at 300–1700 m a.s.l.