8.1. Mirabilis albida (Walter) Heimerl (1901: 182)

≡ Allionia albida Walter (1788: 84) .

Neotype (designated by Ward 2007: 1093):― UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, South Carolina, 27 October 1961, Ahles & Crutchfield 55535 (GH00268138 [image!] image available at https://s3.amazonaws.com/huhwebimages/25 C6 DC9 A563 C42 C /type/full/268138. jpg; isoneotypes: MICH1004222 B [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.mich1004222b, MICH1004222 A [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.mich1004222a, FLAS100264 [image!] image available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.flas100264, NY1185407 [image!] image available at http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/specimen-details/?irn=1397277).

Distribution in Mexico: ―It has been reported from Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas (Hernández-Ledesma 2018). In Sonora it is distributed in Chihuahuan Desert and Sonoran biogeographic provinces (Fig. 4C), and has been collected in Altar, Cananea and Nogales municipalities, in desert grassland and Pine-Oak forest, at 100–2400 m a.s.l.