Eriogonum inflatum Torr. & Frem .

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

Eriogonum inflatum Torr. & Frem.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 262; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Eriogonuminflatum Torr. & Frém.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Polygonaceae; genus: Eriogonum; specificEpithet: inflatum; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Torr. & Frém.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Dry streambed approx 500 m northeast of Mars Desert Research Station "hab"; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'27.7"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'20"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 20, 2014; habitat: Eroded elbows of dry streambeds; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607465; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 268; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Eriogonuminflatum Torr. & Frém.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Polygonaceae; genus: Eriogonum; specificEpithet: inflatum; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Torr. & Frém.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Dry streambed approx 500 m northeast of Mars Desert Research Station "hab"; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'27.7"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'20"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 20, 2014; habitat: Silty dry streambed; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607486; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

This species is known from the nearby San Rafael Swell as two varieties: Eriogonum inflatum var. inflatum and Erigonum inflatum var. fusiforme (Small) Reveal ( Harris 1983). These two varieties have been differentiated by substrate (fine textured shales on the Colorado Plateau in var. fusiforme , vs. coarse sandstone in var. inflatum ), root and caudex size, and annual vs. perennial life history ( Harris 1983). Reveal (2005), who we follow here, ascribe var. fusiforme to an "annual phase", and do not recognize these varieties. Eriogonum inflatum was common in the deserts surrounding MDRS (Fig. 44).

Supplemental Files: CAN 607465 (Suppl. material 66), CAN 607486 (Suppl. material 67).