Atriplex corrugata S. Watson

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

Atriplex corrugata S. Watson

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 273; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; preparations: Silica gel collection; Taxon: scientificName: Atriplexcorrugata S. Watson; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Amaranthaceae; genus: Atriplex; specificEpithet: corrugata; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: S. Watson; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Seasonally wet stream crossing on Cow Dung Road, 1.6 km northeast of Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°25'55.39"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'30.2"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 22, 2014; habitat: Desert slopes; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607503; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

Common on the Mancos shale formation of eastern Utah and western Colorado ( Welsh 2003), Atriplex corrugata was abundant at a seasonally wet streambed north of MDRS. This species was previously reported in the nearby San Rafael Swell ( Harris 1983).

Supplemental File: CAN 607503 (Suppl. material 23).