Mirabilis

Synonymy

Mirabilis L., Sp. Pl. 1: 177. 1753 sec. Le Duc (1995)

Type: Mirabilis jalapa L.

=Oxybaphus L'Hér. ex Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4: 170, 185. 1797 syn. sec. Le Duc (1995)

Type: Oxybaphus viscosus (Cav.) L'Hér. ex Willd.

=Quamoclidion Choisy, Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 13(2): 429. 1849 syn. sec. Le Duc (1995)

Type: Quamoclidion nyctagineum Choisy

=Allioniella Rydb. in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 687. 1902 syn. sec. Le Duc (1995)

Type: Allioniella oxybaphoides (A.Gray) Rydb.

=Hesperonia Standl. in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 306, 360. 1909 syn. sec. Le Duc (1995)

Type: Hesperonia californica (A.Gray) Standl.

Content

Notes

Notes

A genus with 50-60 American and one Asiatic species. It includes herbs, suffrutescent herbs and subshrubs characterised by the presence of involucres of accrescent bracts, often connate, which surround one or more flowers. Traditionally the genus was classified into six sections; some of them corresponding to previously separated genera. Molecular phylogenetic studies, which have mainly been focused on the North American species support the monophyly of the genus (Levin 2000; Douglas & Manos 2007; P. Hernández-Ledesma & al., unpubl. data) but not the monophyly of the sections (P. Hernández-Ledesma & al., unpubl. data). In order to achieve a natural subgeneric classification the South American species should be included in the sampling.