Lilium L.
Perennials; bulb scaly. Stem simple, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves all cauline, upper sometimes with bulbils in axils, linear or lanceolate, usually sessile, scattered or verticillate. Flowers large, trumpet-like, solitary, or in lax terminal racemes; segments free, varying in shape, spreading or revolute in upper half, usually with basal nectary. Capsule obovate, 6-ribbed. Seeds many, flat. Spp. c, 80, of N. Temperate regions. Adventive spp. 2.
Key
L. × maculatum Thunb., an orange-flowered lily, has been once collected from a roadside at Darfield, Canterbury - A. J. Healy and R. J. L. Sheehy 59/17a, 4.1.1959," . . . garden escape - small patch" (CHR 121551). It belongs to a hybrid group of lilies with erect, wide open flowers in which the perianth-segments are narrowed to a claw-like base and do not form the perianth-tube characteristic of most lilies.
