Salpianthus macrodontus Standley (1911: 393)

Sandoval-Ortega, Manuel Higinio & Sánchez-Escalante, José Jesús, 2022, The family Nyctaginaceae (Caryophyllales) in Sonora, Mexico, Phytotaxa 575 (1), pp. 35-56 : 51

11.1. Salpianthus macrodontus Standley (1911: 393) .

Type: ― MEXICO. Sinaloa, on cliffs along the sea near the signal station at Mazatlán , 31 March 1910, Rose et al. 13752 (holotype:― US barcode 00103081 [image!] image available at http://n 2t.net/ark:/65665/3afcce6aa-7644-44d6-bc39-a32837d66892) .

Distribution in Mexico: ―Endemic to the country, in Sinaloa and Sonora states ( Hernández-Ledesma 2021). In Sonora it is distributed in Pacific Lowlands and Sonoran biogeographic provinces ( Fig. 4D ), and has been collected in Alamos, Empalme and Guaymas municipalities, in tropical deciduous forest and subtropical scrub, at 20–800 m a.s.l.

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FIGURE 4. Distribution of the Nyctaginaceae genera in the State of Sonora. A: genera Abronia, Allionia, Acleisanthes, Okenia, and Pisonia; B: genus Boerhavia; C: genus Mirabilis; D: genera Boldoa, Commicarpus, Cyphomeris, and Salpianthus.