Acarospora peliscypha Th. Fr.

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

Acarospora peliscypha Th. Fr.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 286; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Acarosporapeliscypha Th. Fr.; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Lecanoromycetes; order: Acarosporales; family: Acarosporaceae; genus: Acarospora; specificEpithet: peliscypha; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Th. Fr.; 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 north 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; identificationRemarks: Additional specimens examined: Utah: Grand County, Sharnoff & Sharnoff 1635.01 (CANL), on partially calcareous sandstone. Colorado: Boulder County, Shushan & Weber S3363 (CANL), on acidic sandstone.; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 22, 2014; habitat: Conglomerate sandstone hilltop dominated by Artemisia and Ephedra; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127960; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

Acarospora peliscypha is an epruinose species; the whitish material on this specimen, as shown on the right side of Fig. 12, is not pruina but represents an accumulation of necrotic material. Although we were unable to find previous published reports of this species from Utah, we did examine one previous collection from that state. This species has been described from the Sonoran Desert as growing on granite only ( Knudsen 2007), however we found the species on partially calcareous sandstone.

Supplemental File: CANL 127960 (Suppl. material 1).