Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth.

Sokoloff, Paul C., Freebury, Colin E., Hamilton, Paul B. & Saarela, Jeffery M., 2016, The " Martian " flora: new collections of vascular plants, lichens, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8176-8176 : 8176

Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 255; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Hilariajamesii (Torr.) Benth.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Monocots; order: Poales; family: Poaceae; genus: Hilaria; specificEpithet: jamesii; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Torr.) Benth.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Vicinity of the Mars Desert Research Station, Hanksville, Utah, 500 m radius of "hab"; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'23.2"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'31.1"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Saarela, Jeffery M.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 17, 2014; habitat: Sandy washes and outcrops surrounding MDRS; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607498; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

This desert grass is endemic to the southwestern United States ( Barkworth 2005), and was common in the vicinity of MDRS (Fig. 41). This species was previously reported for the nearby San Rafael Swell ( Harris 1983).

Supplemental File: CAN 607498 (Suppl. material 62).