Mirabilis laevis

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Nyctaginaceae
Tribus: Nyctagineae
Genus: Mirabilis
Sectio: M. sect. Oxybaphoides
Species: Mirabilis laevis
Varietas: M. l. var. laevis – M. l. var. crassifolia – M. l. var. retrorsa – M. l. var. villosa
Name

Mirabilis laevis (Walter) Heimerl, Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 5: 182. 1901.
Basionym

Oxybaphus laevis Bentham, Bot. Voy. Sulphur, 44. 1844

Synonyms

Hesperonia laevis (Bentham) Standley

References

USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Mirabilis laevis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.
eFloras Flora of North America

Vernacular names

Mirabilis laevis, the desert wishbone-bush,[1] is a recently redefined species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family. Distribution is in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico.

Description

Mirabilis laevis now includes the common California chaparral plant known as wishbone bush (formerly Mirabilis californica), and several very similar relatives previously classified as separate species and now as varieties.[2][3]
Varieties

Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia is found in California chaparral and woodlands habitats in California and Baja California, including Cedros Island (namesake for synonym M. c. (A. Gray) var. cedrosensis (Standl.) J.F. Macbr.). The plant is also found in the Southern California Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada foothills, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, the White Mountains, and the Inyo Mountains.[2][4]
Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa is found in the White and Inyo Mountains, Nevada, and Oregon, east to Utah, and south to Arizona and northwest Mexico.[5]
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa has a similar distribution to Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa.[6]

References

USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Mirabilis laevis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
(Choisy) Spellenberg, 2001
UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis . accessed 6.16.2012
UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia . accessed 6.16.2012
UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis var. retrorsa . accessed 6.16.2012

UC—Jepson: Mirabilis laevis var. villosa . accessed 6.16.2012

Spellenberg, R. & S. R. Rodriguez Tijerina. (2001). Geographic variation and taxonomy of North American species of Mirabilis, section Oxybaphoides (Nyctaginaceae). Sida 19:3 539–570.