Myrmecia 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

Myrmecia sp.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 296; recordedBy: Sokoloff Paul C.; Taxon: kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Chlorophyta; class: Trebouxiophyceae; order: Trebouxiales; family: Trebouxiaceae; genus: Myrmecia; taxonRank: Species; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Roadside along ATV trail 2 km east of Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimElevation: 1348 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'53.8"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°46'18"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Hamilton Paul B.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 23 2014; habitat: Sandstone rubble and sandy plains.; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127964; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Dried Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 305; recordedBy: Sokoloff Paul C.; Taxon: kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Chlorophyta; class: Trebouxiophyceae; order: Trebouxiales; family: Trebouxiaceae; genus: Myrmecia; taxonRank: Species; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Alluvial plain and dry creekbed directly opposite turnoff to Mars Desert Research Station on Cow Dung Road; verbatimElevation: 1357 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'19.2"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'20"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Hamilton Paul B; dateIdentified: 2016; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 24 2014; habitat: Calcareous sandstone; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127965; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

Cells elliptical, length 6.5-15.5 μm, width 5-12 μm (Fig. 9). Chloroplast plate-like (1-many), covering most of the cell. Pyrenoid absent. Cell mucilage 0.5-1.5 μm thick. Endophytic, within two species of lichen in family Verrucariaceae (Fig. 9). Earlier descriptions of M. biatorellae indicated a broad range in cell size, however a more recent treatment of the genus ( Ettl and Gärtner 2014) suggests that cells of M. biatorellae are larger than the cells observed here.