The family Nyctaginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico Author Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio 0000-0003-1396-9024 Universidad de Sonora, DICTUS, Herbario USON. Niños Héroes, entre Rosales y Pino Suárez, Col. Centro, Hermosillo, Sonora, México, C. P. 83000 & m. higinio. s @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1396 - 9024 m.higinio.s@hotmail.com Author Sánchez-Escalante, José Jesús 0000-0002-7402-7869 Universidad de Sonora, DICTUS, Herbario USON. Niños Héroes, entre Rosales y Pino Suárez, Col. Centro, Hermosillo, Sonora, México, C. P. 83000 & jsancheze 1766 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7402 - 7869 jsancheze1766@gmail.com text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-12-06 575 1 35 56 http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN journal article 202809 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.1.2 28408ef5-440f-4be4-a847-dc994d619144 1179-3163 7403226 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.