Sporobolus airoides (Torr.) Torr.

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

Sporobolus airoides (Torr.) Torr.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 298; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Sporobolusairoides (Torr.) Torr.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Monocots; order: Poales; family: Poaceae; genus: Sporobolus; specificEpithet: airoides; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Torr.) Torr.; 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 northeast of Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimElevation: 1348 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'53.8"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°46'18"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Saarela, Jeffery M.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 23, 2014; habitat: Dry sandy streambed, grass-dominated community; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607494; collectionCode: CAN; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

This species was previously reported for the San Rafael Swell ( Harris 1983), and was encountered on sandy soils north of MDRS (Fig. 42). Welsh et al. (1993) recognize two varieties in S. airoides , however Peterson et al. (2003) do not. We follow the latter treatment here.

Supplemental File: CAN 607494 (Suppl. material 63).