Lilium davidii

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Liliales

Familia: Liliaceae
Subfamilia: Lilioideae
Genus: Lilium
Sectio: L. sect. Sinomartagon
Species: Lilium davidii
Varieties: L. d. var. davidii – L. d. var. willmottiae
Name

Lilium davidii Duch. ex Elwes, Monogr. Lilium 1: t. 24. 1877.
Hybrids

L. × scottiae
Vernacular names
Deutsch: Davids-Lilie
svenska: Eldlilja

Lilium davidii is an Asian species of plants in the lily family, native to mountainous areas of Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Tibet, Bhutan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan.[1][2][3]

Lilium davidii grows up to 1.5m high, and bears up to about 20 unscented flowers with recurved tepals (bent backwards), orange or reddish orange, from July to August.[4]

The plant is cultivated for its edible bulb.[4] It is a stem-rooting lily (adventitious roots emerging above the bulb) that also forms bulbils.

The species is named for French missionary and naturalist Armand David (1826-1900).
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Mao, A.A. & Bhaumik, M. (2007). Notes on Lilium davidii Duchartre - a rare beautiful lily from Manipur, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31: 436-438.

Liang Songyun (梁松筠 Liang Song-jun); Minoru N. Tamura. "Lilium Linnaeus". Flora of China. Vol. 24.

Patrick M. Synge: Collins Guide to Bulbs. 1961.
European Garden Flora; vol. 1, 1986.
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