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 5.1. Boldoa purpurascens Cavanilles ex Lagasca (in Lagasca 1816: 10 ) S. purpurascens (Cavanilles ex Lagasca) Hooker & Arnott (1841: 308) . Lectotype (designated by Spellenberg 2001: 93):― CUBA , Hab. in Cuba insula, Boldo s.n. ( MA 235211 [image!] image available at http://161.111.171.57/herbarioV/visorVCat.php?img=MA-01-00235211; isotype MA 235212 [image!] image available at http://161.111.171.57/herbarioV/visorVCat.php?img=MA-01-00235212). Distribution in Mexico : ―This species is reported from Chiapas , Colima , Estado de México , Guerrero , Hidalgo , Jalisco , Michoacán , Morelos , Nayarit , Oaxaca , Puebla , Querétaro , Sinaloa , Sonora and Veracruz ( Hernández-Ledesma 2021 ). In Sonora it is distributed in Pacific Lowlands biogeographic province ( Fig. 4D ), in Álamos and Yécora municipalities, in tropical deciduous forest and subtropical scrub, at 200–800 m a.s.l.