The " Martian " flora: new collections of vascular plants, lichens, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah Author Sokoloff, Paul C. Author Freebury, Colin E. Author Hamilton, Paul B. Author Saarela, Jeffery M. text Biodiversity Data Journal 2016 4 8176 8176 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8176 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e8176 1314-2828--8176 Dieteria canescens var. canescens (Pursh) Nutt. Materials Type status: Other material . Occurrence: recordNumber: 366; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C. ; Taxon: scientificName: Dieteriacanescens(Pursh)Nutt.var.canescens; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; order: Asterales; family: Asteraceae; genus: Dieteria; specificEpithet: canescens; infraspecificEpithet: canescens; taxonRank: Variety; scientificNameAuthorship: (Pursh) Nutt.; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America ; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Parking lot of Burpee Dinosaur Quarry, end of Cow Dung Road; verbatimElevation: 1377 m ; verbatimLatitude: 38°27'8.24"N ; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'27.384"W ; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C. ; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: September 19, 2015 ; habitat: Dry sandstone bluffs; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607522; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Notes This species was recorded for the nearby San Rafael Swell as Machaeranthera canescens (Pursh) Gray ( Harris 1983 ); the currently accepted name for this taxon is Dieteria canecens ( Morgan 2006 ) based on molecular analysis and reclassification of the polyphyletic genus Machaeranthera ( Morgan et al. 2009 ). Supplemental File: CAN 607552 (Suppl. material 31).