John Thomas Howell
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John Thomas Howell (November 6, 1903[http://www.csus.edu/bios/images/Placer%20County%20Flora%20Introduction.pdf Placer County Flora Introduction] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100508013432/http://www.csus.edu/bios/images/Placer%20County%20Flora%20Introduction.pdf |date=2010-05-08 }} – May 7, 1994"Remembrance of John Thomas Howell", in [http://www.fna.org/Newsletter/Volume/V08n3 Flora of North America newsletter, vol.8, no.3]) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He became an expert of Eriogonum (buckwheat) species, which are widely represented in the native California flora.
He was the assistant of Alice Eastwood (1859−1953), the renowned botanist and botanical collection director at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.
Taxa named for Howell
The genera of Howelliella (in the family Plantaginaceae),{{cite book | last=Quattrocchi | first=Umberto | title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L | publisher=CRC Press | location=Boca Raton, Florida | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8493-2676-9}}{{cite web |title=Howelliella Rothm. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:297389-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}} Howellanthus (a synonym of Phacelia in the Boraginaceae family) and also Johanneshowellia (Howell's buckwheat) of the family Polygonaceae,{{cite web |title=Johanneshowellia Reveal {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60436790-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 May 2021 |language=en}} are all named in his honor.{{cite web | last = Reveal | first = James L. | url = http://www.plantsystematics.org/reveal/pbio/eriog/johanneshowellia.html | title = Eriogonoideae (Polygonaceae) of North America north of Mexico: Johanneshowellia | publisher = University of Maryland | accessdate = 2 October 2021 | archive-date = 11 May 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200511222046/http://www.plantsystematics.org/reveal/PBIO/eriog/johanneshowellia.html | url-status = dead }}{{cite journal | doi = 10.1663/0007-196X(2004)056[0299:JPEANG]2.0.CO;2 | issn = 0007-196X | year = 2004 | volume = 56 | issue = 4 | pages = 299–306 | title = Johanneshowellia (Polygonaceae: Eriogonoideae), a new genus from the Intermountain West | journal = Brittonia | last1 = Reveal | first1 = James L. |jstor = 3218353| s2cid = 20181547 }}
Taxa named by Howell
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See also
- List of California native plants
- {{C|Flora of California}}
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