Heteroplacidium compactum (A. Massal.) Gueidan & Cl. Roux

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

Heteroplacidium compactum (A. Massal.) Gueidan & Cl. Roux

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 296; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Heteroplacidiumcompactum (A. Massal.) Gueidan & Cl. Roux; kingdom: Fungi; phylum: Ascomycota; class: Eurotiomycetes; order: Verrucariales; family: Verrucariaceae; genus: Heteroplacidium; specificEpithet: compactum; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (A. Massal.) Gueidan & Cl. Roux; 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: Freebury, Colin E.; dateIdentified: 2015; identificationReferences: Breuss, O. (2007); identificationRemarks: Additional specimen examined: Saskatchewan: Grasslands National Park: Freebury 1335, independent on sandstone, parasitically on Verrucariainficiens (CANL).; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 23, 2014; habitat: Sandstone rubble on sandy plain; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CANL 127964; collectionCode: CANL, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

Heteroplacidium compactum is widely distributed worldwide. It was previously reported from Utah as Catapyrenium compactum (A. Massal.) R. Sant. by St. Clair et al. (1991). This lichen begins as a parasite on other lichens, and then grows independently. Fig. 20 shows our specimen growing partly scattered among and likely parasitic on Caloplaca trachyphylla .

Supplemental File: CANL 127964 (Suppl. material 19).