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.
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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
Opuntia basilaris var. basilaris Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordNumber: 272; recordedBy:
Sokoloff, Paul C.
; preparations: Silica gel collection; Taxon: scientificName: OpuntiabasilarisEngelm. & J.M. Bigelowvar.basilaris; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Cactaceae; genus: Opuntia; specificEpithet: basilaris; infraspecificEpithet: basilaris; taxonRank: Variety; scientificNameAuthorship: Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow; Location: continent: North America; country:
United States of America
; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality:
Mars Desert Research Station
; verbatimLocality: Seasonally wet stream crossing on Cow Dung Road, 1.6 km northeast of Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimElevation:
1371 m
; verbatimLatitude:
38°25'55.39"N
; verbatimLongitude:
110°47'30.2"W
; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy:
Sokoloff, Paul C.
; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate:
November 22, 2014
; habitat: Desert slopes; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607488; collectionCode:
CAN, UTC
; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen
Notes
This species was common along the banks of a seasonally wet stream crossing due northeast of MDRS (Fig. 32). This species was previously recorded from the nearby San Rafael Swell as
Opuntia basilaris
(without infraspecific rank) (
Harris 1983
). Morphological variability and hybridization have hindered infraspecific delineation in this species, and many named varieties appear in the literature, including four in
Welsh et al. (1993)
, and a different set of four in
Pinkava (2003)
; here we follow the latter treatment.
Supplemental File: CAN 607488 (Suppl. material 43).