The " Martian " flora: new collections of vascular plants, lichens, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah Author Sokoloff, Paul C. Author Freebury, Colin E. Author Hamilton, Paul B. Author Saarela, Jeffery M. text Biodiversity Data Journal 2016 4 8176 8176 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8176 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8176 1314-2828--8176 Dasyochloa pulchella (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: 309; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C. ; Taxon: scientificName: Dasyochloapulchella (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Monocots; order: Poales; family: Poaceae; genus: Dasyochloa; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America ; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Sandstone plateau immediately southwest of Mars Desert Research Station, alongside ATV trail; verbatimElevation: 1412 m ; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'22.4"N ; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'40.3"W ; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Saarela, Jeffery M. ; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 24, 2014 ; habitat: Dry conglomerate sandstone; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607497; collectionCode: CAN, UTC ; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Notes This species was commonly encountered on the plateau immediately southwest of MDRS. Previously reported for the nearby San Rafael Swell as Erioneuron pulchellum (Kunth) Tateoka ( Harris 1983 ), recent work has placed this species in the monotypic genus Dasyochloa ( Caro 1981 , Valdes-Reyna 2003 ). Supplemental File: CAN 607497 (Suppl. material 61).