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 1314-2828-4-8176 Eriogonum shockleyi S. Watson Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: 315; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C. ; preparations: Silica gel collection; Taxon: scientificName: Eriogonumshockleyi S. Watson; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Polygonaceae; genus: Eriogonum; specificEpithet: shockleyi; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: S. Watson; 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: Sokoloff, Paul C. ; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 24, 2014 ; habitat: Dry conglomerate sandstone; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607502; collectionCode: CAN, UTC ; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Notes This prostrate plant was encountered on the plateau immediately southwest of MDRS (Fig. 45). This species was previously recorded for the nearby San Rafael Swell as Eriogonum shockleyi var. longilobum (M.E. Jones) S. Stokes ( Harris 1983 ), though varieties are not recognized in later treatments ( Welsh et al. 1993 , Reveal 2005 ). Supplemental File: CAN 607502 (Suppl. material 68).