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 3B4QP 429211 Torr. & Frem. Magnoliopsida Polygonaceae Eriogonum CoL Plantae Eriogonum inflatum Caryophyllales 0 8176 Tracheophyta species inflatum  Materials  Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 262; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Eriogonuminflatum Torr. & Frem.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Polygonaceae; genus: Eriogonum; specificEpithet: inflatum; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Torr. & Frem.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimLocality: Dry streambed approx 500 m northeast of Mars Desert Research Station "hab"; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'27.7"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'20"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 20, 2014; habitat: Eroded elbows of dry streambeds; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607465; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 268; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; Taxon: scientificName: Eriogonuminflatum Torr. & Frem.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Caryophyllales; family: Polygonaceae; genus: Eriogonum; specificEpithet: inflatum; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: Torr. & Frem.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station; verbatimLocality: Dry streambed approx 500 m northeast of Mars Desert Research Station "hab"; verbatimElevation: 1371 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'27.7"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'20"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 20, 2014; habitat: Silty dry streambed; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607486; collectionCode: CAN, UTC; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen  Notes This species is known from the nearby San Rafael Swell as two varieties: Eriogonum inflatum var. inflatumand Erigonum inflatum var. fusiforme(Small) Reveal ( Harris 1983). These two varieties have been differentiated by substrate (fine textured shales on the Colorado Plateau in var. fusiforme, vs. coarse sandstone in var. inflatum), root and caudex size, and annual vs. perennial life history ( Harris 1983). Reveal (2005), who we follow here, ascribe var. fusiformeto an "annual phase", and do not recognize these varieties. Eriogonum inflatumwas common in the deserts surrounding MDRS (Fig. 44). Supplemental Files: CAN 607465 (Suppl. material 66), CAN 607486 (Suppl. material 67). 2014-11-20 CAN, UTC Sokoloff, Paul C. United States of America 38.407696 Mars Desert Research Station 12 -110.78889 0 8176 1 Other material 2014-11-20 CAN, UTC Sokoloff, Paul C. United States of America 38.407696 Mars Desert Research Station 12 -110.78889 0 8176 1 Other material