Tauschia howellii (Coult. & Rose) J. F. Macbr.

Tauschia howellii (Coult. & Rose) F. Macbr. Contr
Gray Herb. 56: 32. 1918.
Velaea Howellii Coult. & Rose, Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 122. 1888.
Drudeo phylum Howellii Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 82. 1900.
Short-caulescent, 5-8 cm. high, glabrous throughout; leaves ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 1.5-3 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, pinnate or ternate, the leaflets oblong to ovate, confluent, sessile, 5-15 mm. long, 10-15 mm. broad, irregularly pungent-dentate and lobed, thick, the margins revolute; petioles 2-3 cm. long; peduncles up to 2 cm. long; involucre wanting; involucel of several bractlets like the foliage leaves, 1-2 cm. long, greatly exceeding the flowers and fruit; rays 3-5, 8-16 mm. long, or some umbellets sessile; pedicels up to 5 mm. long; calyx-teeth prominent; flowers yellow; styles slender, spreading; carpophore unknown; fruit oblong, 2-4 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, the ribs filiform; oil-tubes several in the intervals and on the commissure; seed-face unknown, but presumably concave to sulcate.
Type locality: "Top of Siskiyou Mountains," Jackson County, Oregon, Thomas Howell 711. Distribution: Known only from the vicinity of the type locality {Howell 1366).