Placidium acarosporoides (Zahlbr.) Breuss

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

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scientific name

Placidium acarosporoides (Zahlbr.) Breuss
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Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 305; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Placidiumacarosporoides (Zahlbr.) Breuss; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Eurotiomycetes; order: Verrucariales; family: Verrucariaceae; genus: Placidium; specificEpithet: acarosporoides; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Zahlbr.) Breuss; 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: Freebury, C.E.; dateIdentified: 2015; identificationReferences: Breuss (2002), Thomson (1987); identificationRemarks: Additional specimen examined: California: Riverside Co., Mojave Desert: S. & S.D. Sharnoff 1598.25, on granitic rock (CANL).; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 24, 2014; habitat: Sandstone rubble on sandy plain; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127965; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen GoogleMaps

Notes

Placidium acarosporoides was found growing on calcareous sandstone in the vicinity of MDRS (Fig. 21). It has been reported previously from eastern Wayne County by Thomson (1987) as Catapyrenium acarosporoides (Zahlbr.) J.W. Thomson.

Supplemental File: CANL 127965 (Suppl. material 20).