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Boerhavia alata Watson 1889

  • 1. 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
  • 2. 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

Description

4.1. Boerhavia alata Watson (1889: 69).

Lectotype (designated here):― MEXICO, Sonora, on a small rocky island in Guayamas harbor, 1887, Palmer 332 (K000572647 [image!] available at http://specimens.kew.org/herbarium/ K000572647; isolectotypes: US00102938 [image!] available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/ 65665/3c9f5b93b-29bd-454a-882f-fed5af47a021; US 00102939 [image!] image available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/65665/3299ae852- 4b15-48c8-8390-36c1e22eb8da; NDG 15686 [image!] available at https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.ndg15686).

Typification of the name Boerhavia alata: ― Watson (1889: 69) mentioned a locality (“On a small rocky island in Guayamas harbor”) and a collector and number of colleciton (Palmer 332); this citation represents a sintype (Art. 9.6 of ICN). We traced four copies of this specimen, two at US, one at K, and one at NDG. The K specimen (barcode K000572647) is here designated as lectotype since it is in better conditions and has flowers and mature anthocarps.

Distribution in Mexico: ―Endemic to the country (Villaseñor 2016), in Sonora it has been registered only in Sonoran biogeographic province (Fig. 4B), Guaymas municipality, close to the shore and in some islands (Isla Pájaros, Isla Almagre Grande, and Isla Tío Ramón), growing on roadsides and on rocky slopes near the shoreline, at 0–20 m a.s.l.

Notes

Published as part of Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio & Sánchez-Escalante, José Jesús, 2022, The family Nyctaginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico, pp. 35-56 in Phytotaxa 575 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.575.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7403226

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Biodiversity

Collection code
ICN, K, NDG , NDG
Material sample ID
K000572647
Scientific name authorship
Watson
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Genus
Boerhavia
Species
alata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Boerhavia alata Watson, 1889 sec. Sandoval-Ortega & Sánchez-Escalante, 2022

References

  • Watson, S. (1889) Contributions to American Botany. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 24: 36 - 87. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 20021550
  • Villasenor, J. L. (2016) Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87 (3): 559 - 902. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. rmb. 2016.06.017