Tulostoma sp.

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

Tulostoma sp.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 308; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Basidiomycota; class: Agaricomycetes; order: Agaricales; family: Agaricaceae; genus: Tulostoma; taxonRank: Genus; 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: Redhead, Scott; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 24, 2014; habitat: Dry conglomerate sandstone; Record Level: institutionID: AAFC; collectionCode: DAOM; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

This is a diverse woody mushroom genus common in deserts of the southwestern United States ( Hernandez Caffot et al. 2011). This specimen was found growing on sandy soils on top of the plateau immediately southwest of MDRS. Unfortunately, the specimen was too old and degraded for anything other than a generic determination (Scott A. Redhead, personal communication) (Fig. 11).