The " Martian " flora: new collections of vascular plants, lichens, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah Sokoloff, Paul C. Freebury, Colin E. Hamilton, Paul B. Saarela, Jeffery M. Biodiversity Data Journal 2016 4 8176 8176 6CDP4 (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb. Liliopsida Poaceae Dasyochloa CoL Plantae Dasyochloa pulchella Poales 0 8176 Tracheophyta species pulchella  Materials  Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 309; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Dasyochloapulchella (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Monocots; order: Poales; family: Poaceae; genus: Dasyochloa; specificEpithet: pulchella; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimLocality: Sandstone plateau immediately southwest of Mars Desert Research Station, alongside ATV trail; verbatimElevation: 1412 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'22.4"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'40.3"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Saarela, Jeffery M.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 24, 2014; habitat: Dry conglomerate sandstone; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607497; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen  Notes This species was commonly encountered on the plateau immediately southwest of MDRS. Previously reported for the nearby San Rafael Swell as Erioneuron pulchellum(Kunth) Tateoka ( Harris 1983), recent work has placed this species in the monotypic genus Dasyochloa( Caro 1981,  Valdes-Reyna2003). Supplemental File: CAN 607497 (Suppl. material 61). 2014-11-24 CAN, UTC Sokoloff, Paul C. United States of America 38.406223 Mars Desert Research Station 1 -110.794525 0 8176 1 Other material