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|accepted_name=Calochortus howellii
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=23: 266. 1888
|year=1888
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Calochortus;Calochortus howellii
|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 howellii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 121, 130
|treatment_page=page 129
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem size;stem architecture;stem architecture;stem course;stem some measurement"><b>Stems </b>slender, not branching or rarely branching in axil of cauline leaf, straight, 2–4 dm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="basal leaf duration;basal leaf some measurement"><b>Leaves:</b> basal persistent, 20–35 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="blade shape;blade pubescence">blade gradually tapering distally, adaxially pubescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>subumbellate, 1–3-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="bract quantity;bract arrangement;bract shape;bract shape;bract some measurement">bracts 2, subopposite, linear to narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, 1–3 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="flower orientation"><b>Flowers </b>erect;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="perianth architecture;perianth shape">perianth open, campanulate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="sepal height or length or size;sepal shape;sepal pubescence">sepals shorter than petals, ovate-acuminate, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="petal coloration;petal shape;petal shape;petal shape;petal pubescence;hair coloration;apex shape">petals yellowish white, with purplish hairs toward base, broadly obovate, cuneate, inconspicuously fringed laterally, sparingly short-hairy adaxially, apex rounded;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="gland shape;gland shape;hair height or length or size;hair architecture;lower margin prominence;membrane architecture or arrangement">glands transversely oblong, slightly depressed, densely covered with short, distally branching hairs, the bases of which unite at lower margin to form inconspicuous, discontinuous membranes;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="filament height or length or size">filaments shorter than anthers;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="anther shape;apex shape">anthers oblong-lanceolate, apex acute to short-apiculate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="capsule orientation;capsule architecture;capsule shape;capsule some measurement;base shape;apex shape"><b>Capsules </b>erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid, ca. 2 cm, base and apex acute.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>light-colored, irregular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="seed coloration;seed architecture or course;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Dry, rocky, serpentine soils
|elevation=300–500 m
|distribution=Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Calochortus howellii is known only from the Illinois River valley, Josephine County.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Calochortus howellii
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Dry, rocky, serpentine soils
|elevation=300–500 m
|distribution=Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1888
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_175.xml
|genus=Calochortus
|species=Calochortus howellii
|2n chromosome quantity=20
|anther shape=oblong-lanceolate
|apex shape=acute;acute;short-apiculate
|basal leaf duration=persistent
|basal leaf some measurement=20cm;35cm
|base shape=acute
|blade pubescence=pubescent
|blade shape=tapering
|bract arrangement=subopposite
|bract quantity=2
|bract shape=attenuate;linear;narrowly lanceolate
|bract some measurement=1cm;3cm
|capsule architecture=3-winged
|capsule orientation=erect
|capsule shape=ellipsoid
|capsule some measurement=2
|filament height or length or size=shorter
|flower orientation=erect
|gland shape=depressed;oblong
|hair architecture=branching
|hair coloration=purplish
|hair height or length or size=short
|inflorescence architecture=1-3-flowered;subumbellate
|lower margin prominence=inconspicuous
|membrane architecture or arrangement=discontinuous
|perianth architecture=open
|perianth shape=campanulate
|petal coloration=yellowish white
|petal pubescence=short-hairy
|petal shape=fringed;cuneate;obovate
|seed architecture or course=irregular
|seed coloration=light-colored
|sepal height or length or size=shorter
|sepal pubescence=glabrous
|sepal shape=ovate-acuminate
|stem architecture=branching;not branching
|stem course=straight
|stem size=slender
|stem some measurement=2dm;4dm
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