Achnatherum hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Barkworth

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

Achnatherum hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Barkworth

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 277; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Achnatherumhymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Barkworth; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Monocots; order: Poales; family: Poaceae; genus: Achnatherum; specificEpithet: hymenoides; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Roem. & Schult.) Barkworth; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: "Comm check" hill, 1.7 km northeast of Mars Desert Research Station, just west of Cow Dung Road.; verbatimElevation: 1381 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°25'3.15"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°46'54.59"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Saarela, Jeffery M.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 22, 2014; habitat: Desert plains; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607491; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

Recorded from the nearby San Rafael Swell as Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper ( Harris 1983), and treated as Stipa hymenoides Roem. & Schult in Welsh et al. (1993) here we follow Barkworth (2007) who recognize the taxon in Achnatherum . Common across our study area, we encountered this species throughout the deserts surrounding MDRS (Fig. 39).

Supplemental File: CAN 607491 (Suppl. material 57).