Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb.

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

Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 285; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; preparations: Silica gel collection; Taxon: scientificName: Tamarixramosissima Ledeb.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Tamaricaceae; genus: Tamarix; specificEpithet: ramosissima; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Ledeb.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Kent's Reservoir, 1.14 km north of Mars Desert Research Station, just west of Cow Dung Road; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°25'28.4"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'17.29"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 22, 2014; habitat: Moist desert flats; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607466; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

Tamarix chinensis and Tamarix ramosissima are both highly invasive within the western U.S.A. (Gaskin and Kazmer 2009). Tamarix ramosissima is often treated as a synonym of T. chinensis ( Welsh et al. 1993), however genetic evidence supports their treatment as distinct species, albeit with extensive introgression and hybridization across its introduced range in the United States ( Gaskin and Kazmer 2009). Plants sampled previously from southeastern Utah have been identified as either back-crossed T. ramosissima or F2 hybrids ( Gaskin and Kazmer 2009); it seems extremely likely that our material would possess a similar genotype.

This species has previously been reported for the nearby San Rafael Swell ( Harris 1983). Only one population was encountered in the vicinity of MDRS, consisting of three shrubby trees and multiple seedlings, around Kent's Reservoir - a pond on the west side of Cow Dung Road north of MDRS (Fig. 47).

Supplemental File: CAN 607466 (Suppl. material 70).