Candelariella rosulans ( Muell . Arg.) Zahlbr.

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

Candelariella rosulans ( Muell. Arg.) Zahlbr.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 251; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; reproductiveCondition: without fruiting bodies; Taxon: scientificName: Candelariellacf.rosulans ( Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr.; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Lecanoromycetes; order: Candelariales; family: Candelariaceae; genus: Candelariella; specificEpithet: rosulans; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mull. Arg.) Zahlbr.; 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: Freebury, Colin E.; dateIdentified: 2015; identificationQualifier: cf.; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 17, 2014; habitat: Rocky soil; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127955; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 288b; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Candelariellarosulans ( Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr.; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Lecanoromycetes; order: Candelariales; family: Candelariaceae; genus: Candelariella; specificEpithet: rosulans; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mull. Arg.) Zahlbr.; 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: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°25'3.15"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°46'54.59"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Freebury, Colin E.; dateIdentified: 2015; identificationReferences: Westberg (2007); Event: verbatimEventDate: November 22, 2014; habitat: Conglomerate sandstone hilltop dominated by Artemisia and Ephedra; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127971; collectionCode: CANL; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

Asci 8-spored, ascospores narrowly ellipsoid to oblong, 13-15 × (4-)5(-6) µm. This yellow lichen species (Fig. 16) is known from throughout much of western North America ( Westberg 2007). It was previously reported from Wayne County by Westberg (2007) and Leavitt and St. Clair (2008).

Supplemental Files: CANL 127955 (Suppl. material 12), CANL 127971 (Suppl. material 13).