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
Dieteria canescens var. canescens (Pursh) Nutt.
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordNumber: 366; recordedBy:
Sokoloff, Paul C.
; Taxon: scientificName: Dieteriacanescens(Pursh)Nutt.var.canescens; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Asterales; family: Asteraceae; genus: Dieteria; specificEpithet: canescens; infraspecificEpithet: canescens; taxonRank: Variety; scientificNameAuthorship: (Pursh) Nutt.; Location: continent: North America; country:
United States of America
; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality:
Mars Desert Research Station
; verbatimLocality: Parking lot of Burpee Dinosaur Quarry, end of Cow Dung Road; verbatimElevation:
1377 m
; verbatimLatitude:
38°27'8.24"N
; verbatimLongitude:
110°47'27.384"W
; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy:
Sokoloff, Paul C.
; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate:
September 19, 2015
; habitat: Dry sandstone bluffs; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607522; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen
Notes
This species was recorded for the nearby San Rafael Swell as
Machaeranthera canescens
(Pursh) Gray (
Harris 1983
); the currently accepted name for this taxon is
Dieteria canecens
(
Morgan 2006
) based on molecular analysis and reclassification of the polyphyletic genus
Machaeranthera
(
Morgan et al. 2009
).
Supplemental File: CAN 607552 (Suppl. material 31).