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
Hymenoxys cooperi (A. Gray) Cockerell
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordNumber: 312; recordedBy:
Sokoloff, Paul C.
; preparations: Silica gel collection; Taxon: scientificName: Hymenoxyscooperi (A. Gray) Cockerell; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Asterales; family: Asteraceae; genus: Hymenoxys; specificEpithet: cooperi; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (A. Gray) Cockerell; 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 607483; collectionCode:
CAN
; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen
Notes
This species, collected on the plateau west of MDRS, was not recorded in the previous floristic survey of the nearby San Rafael Swell
Harris (1983)
but there is a record of this species occurring in the Glen Canyon Recreational Area to the south (
Hill and Ayers 2009
). A shorter form with fewer heads is sometimes recognized as
H. cooperi var. canescens
(D.C. Eaton) K. F. Parker; however
Welsh et al. (1993)
did not recognize varieties in Utah, and
Bierner (2006)
did not recognize varieties in this species whatsoever.
Supplemental File: CAN 607483 (Suppl. material 37).