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|accepted_name=Calochortus ambiguus
|accepted_authority=(M. E. Jones) Ownbey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=27: 505. 1940
|year=1940
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Calochortus watsonii var. ambiguus
|authority=M. E. Jones
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Contr. W. Bot.
|publication_place=14: 26. 1912
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Calochortus;Calochortus ambiguus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Calochortus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Calochortus ambiguus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 139
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>often bulbose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="bulb coat texture">bulb coat membranous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem architecture;stem course"><b>Stems </b>usually branching, straight.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="basal leaf life cycle"><b>Leaves:</b> basal withering;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape">blade linear-attenuate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>subumbellate, 1–4-flowered.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower orientation"><b>Flowers </b>erect;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="perianth coloration;perianth coloration;perianth architecture;perianth shape">perianth pinkish or bluish gray, infrequently with longitudinal gray stripe, open, campanulate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="hair coloration;hair size;hair architecture;hair architecture;apex shape">sepals invested near gland, with yellowish, distally enlarged or branching, gland-tipped hairs, base sometimes marked with dull purple, apex acuminate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="zone coloration;sepal variability;sepal coloration">petals with median blotch usually surrounded by yellow zone, ± equaling sepals, base sometimes marked with dull purple;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="gland shape;gland shape;membrane size or width;membrane shape;hair height or length or size;hair architecture">glands round to lunate, depressed, surrounded with narrow, deeply fringed membrane, densely covered with short, distally branching hairs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="filament height or length or size">filaments shorter than anthers;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="anther shape;apex shape">anthers oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse to acute.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="capsule orientation;capsule shape;capsule shape;apex shape"><b>Capsules </b>erect, linear-oblong, 3-angled, apex acute.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>flat.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed prominence or shape;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry soils
|elevation=1100–2700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Utah.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Calochortus ambiguus
|authority=(M. E. Jones) Ownbey
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Calochortus watsonii var. ambiguus
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry soils
|elevation=1100–2700 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1940
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_215.xml
|genus=Calochortus
|species=Calochortus ambiguus
|2n chromosome quantity=18
|anther shape=oblong-lanceolate
|apex shape=acute;obtuse;acute
|basal leaf life cycle=withering
|blade shape=linear-attenuate
|bulb coat texture=membranous
|capsule orientation=erect
|capsule shape=3-angled;linear-oblong
|filament height or length or size=shorter
|flower orientation=erect
|gland shape=depressed;round;lunate
|hair architecture=branching;gland-tipped;branching
|hair coloration=yellowish
|hair height or length or size=short
|hair size=enlarged
|inflorescence architecture=1-4-flowered;subumbellate
|membrane shape=fringed
|membrane size or width=narrow
|perianth architecture=open
|perianth coloration=bluish gray;pinkish
|perianth shape=campanulate
|seed prominence or shape=flat
|sepal coloration=yellow
|sepal variability=equaling
|stem architecture=branching
|stem course=straight
|whole_organism architecture=bulbose
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|zone coloration=yellow
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