Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Liliales Perleb
Family
Liliaceae Juss.
Genus
Lilium L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lilium lancifolium Thunb., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 333 (1794)
Synonymy:
  • = Lilium tigrinum Ker Gawl. (1809)
Vernacular Name(s):
Devil lily; Kentan; tiger lily
 Description

Plant robust; bulb 5–10 cm diam., globose, whitish or yellow, occasionally tinged purple. Stems 60–120 cm high, sometimes woody below, erect, dark purple-brown, with soft, white, cobwebby hairs, rooting at base, the subterranean rooting portion to ± 50 cm depth in loose soil. Leaves many, 6–15 × 1–2 cm, dark green, sessile, linear-lanceolate, upper with bulbils in axils. Flowers (1)–5–6–(15) on simple or shortly-branched axis, deep bright orange-red with numerous purple-black spots, nodding; segments 6–10 cm long, strongly revolute. Capsule not seen.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3 as Lilium tigrinum Ker Gawl.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
2002: Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.) Flora of North America. New York and Oxford.
Hobbs, J.; Hatch, T. 1994: Bulbs for New Zealand Gardens. Godwit Press, Auckland.
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42. [as Lilium tigrinum Ker Gawl.]
Thunberg, C.P. 1794: Botanical Observations on the Flora Japonica. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2: 326–342.
Weeds Key – interactive key to the weed species of New Zealand