Polysporina gyrocarpa (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.

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

Polysporina gyrocarpa (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 247; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Polysporinagyrocarpa (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Lecanoromycetes; order: Acarosporales; family: Acarosporaceae; genus: Polysporina; specificEpithet: gyrocarpa; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; 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; identificationReferences: Knudsen and Kocourková (2009); Event: verbatimEventDate: November 17, 2014; habitat: Sandstone rubble on sandy plain; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127952; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 250; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Polysporinagyrocarpa (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Lecanoromycetes; order: Acarosporales; family: Acarosporaceae; genus: Polysporina; specificEpithet: gyrocarpa; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; 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; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 17, 2014; habitat: Sandstone rubble on sandy plain; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127954; collectionCode: CANL; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 286b; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Polysporinagyrocarpa (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Lecanoromycetes; order: Acarosporales; family: Acarosporaceae; genus: Polysporina; specificEpithet: gyrocarpa; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; 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; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 22, 2014; habitat: Conglomerate sandstone hilltop dominated by Artemisia and Ephedra; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127970; collectionCode: CANL; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 289; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Polysporinagyrocarpa (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Lecanoromycetes; order: Acarosporales; family: Acarosporaceae; genus: Polysporina; specificEpithet: gyrocarpa; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (H. Magn.) N. S. Golubk.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Along Cow Dung Road north of the Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°25'19.35"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'5.4"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Freebury, Colin E.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 22, 2014; habitat: Moist desert flats; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127963; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

This species was commonly encountered growing on sandstone rocks and outcrops surrounding MDRS; the black, dot-like apothecia stand out well on tan-coloured sandstone (Fig. 15). Polysporina gyrocarpa was previously reported from Wayne County as Sarcogyne oligospora H. Magn. ( St. Clair et al. 1991) and as Polysporina oligospora (H. Magn.) K. Knudsen ( Knudsen and Lendemer 2005), and from the San Rafael Swell ( Knudsen and Kocourková 2009).

Supplemental Files: CANL 127952 (Suppl. material 8), CANL 127954 (Suppl. material 9), CANL 127963 (Suppl. material 10), CANL 127970 (Suppl. material 11).