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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Lilium formosanum A.Wallace

*L. formosanum A. Wallace Garden (London) 40, 1891, 442.

Stem c. 75 cm × 8 mm, glabrous, Purple below, green above, rooting freely at ground-level and for some distance below. Leaves many, sessile, narrow-linear, c. 13 cm × 3-4 mm, dark green, ± shining. Flowers 1-2-(3), 15-18 cm long, borne horizontally, white inside, tinged purple on outside. Capsule not seen.

N. North Auckland - Kerikeri; Auckland - Auckland City, Cooks Bay (Whitianga), Whakatane. Garden escape on roadsides and tracks.

(Taiwan)

First record: ‡

First collection: Whakatane, grassy track to monument, W.R. Sykes 112/72, 31.1.1972 ().

FL. 2-3.

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