8.2. Mirabilis coccinea (Torrey) Bentham & Hook (1880: 3)

≡ Oxybaphus coccineus Torrey (in Emory 1859: 169) ≡ Allionia coccinea (Torrey) Standley (1909: 339) .

Lectotype (designated here):― UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, New Mexico, Hill sides, Copper mines and on the Mimbres, Wright 1723 (US-00102894 [image!] image available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/65665/345d12d37-e4c0-4dd0-8023-a0c7d08d4e9a; Isolectotypes: MO216365 [image!] image available at http://legacy.tropicos.org/Image/55089, K000779330 [image!] image available at http:// specimens.kew.org/herbarium/K000779330, PH 00017786 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap. specimen.ph00017786) .

Typification of the name Oxybaphus coccineus: ―Torrey (in Emory 1859: 169) cited a sintype (Wright 1723), and we found four duplicates of this collection. The specimen deposited at US (barcode US 00102894) is here designated as lectotype; it matches Torrey’s protologue and corresponds to the currect concept in Mirabilis (see e.g., Jepson Flora Project 2022, Spellenberg 2003).

Distribution in Mexico: ―It is distributed in Chihuahua and Sonora (Villaseñor 2016). In Sonora it is distributed in the Chihuahuan Desert biogeographic province (Fig. 4C), in Agua Prieta and Fronteras municipalities, in Oak forest, at 1300–1700 m a.s.l.