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 7.1. Cyphomeris gypsophiloides (Martens & Galeotti) Standley (1911: 428) ≡ Lindenia gypsophiloides Martens & Galeotti (1843: 358) ≡ Senkenbergia gypsophiloides (Martens & Galeotti) Bentham & Hook. f. (1880: 5) ≡ Boerhavia gypsophiloides (Martens & Galeotti) Coulter (1894: 354) . Lectotype (here designated):― MEXICO . Puebla , dans les plaines á mimosées et á cactées de Tehuacán de las Granadas, August 1840 , Galeotti 577 ( BR0000005230372 [image!] image available at https://www.botanicalcollections.be/specimen/ BR0000005230372 ). Typification of the name Lindenia gypsophiloides :― The protologue ( Martens & Galeotti 1843: 358 ) consists of a description, a locality “dans les plaines á mimosées et á cactées de Tehuacán de las Granadas” and a collector “Coll. H. Gal. No. 577” (sintype according to Art. 9.6 of ICN). Here , the specimen deposited in BR (barcode BR0000005230372 ) is designated as lectotype since it is the only original material known so far. Distribution in Mexico : ―It is reported from Aguascalientes , Chihuahua , Coahuila , Durango , Hidalgo , Nuevo León , Puebla , Querétaro , San Luis Potosí , Sonora , Tamaulipas , Veracruz and Zacatecas ( Sandoval-Ortega et al. 2020 , Villaseñor 2016 ). In Sonora it is restricted to the Chihuahua Desert biogeographic province ( Fig. 4D ), and has been collected in Agua Prieta municipality, in xerophytic scrub, at 1200–1300 m a.s.l.