Taxon: Frankenia palmeri S. Wats.
Family: Frankeniaceae

Collector: Richard S. Felger   03-510   

Date: 20 October 2003

Locality: Mexico, Sonora, Mpio. de Puerto Peñasco. Northwest of Puerto Peñasco, 1.2 mile (odometer) on dirt road paralleling (north side of) RR west of southeastern boundary of El Pinacate Reserva de la Biosfera (along road and RR to Estación Gustavo Sotelo), then ca. 100 m southward fi-om RR tracks. Near sea level. (GPS; WGS84).

31.545  -113.743

Verbatim Coordinates: DMS: 31d 30m 16.2s N; 113d 38m 39.5s W

Habitat: Sand flats and low stabilized dunes or sand hills. Low areas with well-formed, thick blackish microphytic crust. Ca 85-90% cover of ephemerals.

Associated Species: Ambrosia dumosa, Atriplex barclayana, A. canescens, Cylindropuntia echinocarpa, Frankenia palmeri, Isocoma acradenia. Larrea, Lycium brevipes, Suaeda nigra.

Description: Subshrubs ca 40 cm tall; abundant.

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