Lilium maculatum

Lilium maculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Liliaceae
Genus:	Lilium
Species:	L. maculatum
Binomial name
Lilium maculatum Thunb.
Synonyms[1]
Synonymy Lilium thunbergianum Schult. & Schult.f. Lilium venustum Kunth Lilium fortunei Lindl. Lilium wilsonii T.Moore Lilium alternans Siebold ex Duch. Lilium coruscans Baker Lilium batemanniae A.Wallace Lilium bukosanense Honda, syn of var. bukosanense

Garden varieties^[2]

Lilium maculatum (Japanese: スカシユリ(透百合), Sukashiyuri) is a plant in the lily family native to the central and northern regions of Japan, widely cultivated as an ornamental.^[1][3][4][5]

It is a stem rooting lily, growing 20 to 60 centimeters high. It bears a number of orange flowers with red-brown spots.

Varieties^[1]

• Lilium maculatum var. bukosanense (Honda) H.Hara - called "Miyama-sukashiyuri," found on Mount Bukō in Honshu
• Lilium maculatum var. maculatum

formerly included^[1]

• Lilium maculatum subsp. dauricum (Ker Gawl.) H.Hara, now considered a synonym of Lilium pensylvanicum Ker Gawl.
• Lilium maculatum var. monticola H.Hara, now considered a synonym of Lilium maculatum var. maculatum

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Plate 39 of Henry John Elwes (1880) A monograph of the genus Lilium ... illustrated [with coloured plates] by W.H. Fitch, London: Taylor & Francis OCLC: 560210827.
3. Thunberg, Carl Peter 1794. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2: 334 description in Latin
4. Tropicos, Lilium maculatum Thunb.
5. Pacific Bulb Society, Lilium Dauricum Section color photos of several species including numerous color photos of Lilium maculatum