# Lilium brownii

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***Lilium brownii*** is a species of [lily](/source/Lily) native to [mainland China](/source/Mainland_China), [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong),[1] [Kinmen](/source/Kinmen) and [Matsu Islands](/source/Matsu_Islands)[2] as well as northern and central [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam)[3] and [Kachin](/source/Kachin_State) of [Myanmar](/source/Myanmar).[4] Its common names include **Hong Kong lily** and **Brown's lily**.[1]

## Botanical varieties

There are two accepted [varieties](/source/Variety_(botany)) of *L. brownii*:[5]

- *L. brownii* var. *brownii*: leaves lanceolate to linear, known as "wild lily" (野百合) in China.
- *Lilium brownii var. chloraster* (Baker) Baker
- [*L. brownii* var. *viridulum*](/source/Lilium_brownii_var._viridulum): leaves oblanceolate to obovate, known as "(common) lily" (百合) in China. This variety is often cultivated for its edible bulbs.

## References

1. 簡婉婷 (2010). ["利用RAPD及rDNA ITS分子標誌分析馬祖原生百合遺傳歧異度"](http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh1?DocID=U0001-1608201010345700). *學位論文*. 臺灣大學園藝學研究所. [doi:10.6342/ntu.2010.01634](https://doi.org/10.6342/ntu.2010.01634)

1. Averyanov, Leonid V.; Tanaka, Noriyuki; Nguyen, Khang Sinh (2016). ["New Species - *Lilium procumbens* and its Allies in the Flora of Vietnam"](http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?DocID=0372333X-201603-201603150001-201603150001-1-7) (in Chinese). *Taiwania*. **61** (1): 1–7. [doi:10.6165/tai.2016.61.1](https://doi.org/10.6165/tai.2016.61.1). [ISSN 0372-333X](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0372-333X)

1. Kress, W. John; DeFilipps, Robert A.; Farr, Ellen; Kyi, Daw Yin Yin (2003). "A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs, and Climbers of Myanmar (Revised from the original works by J. H. Lace, R. Rodger, H. G. Hundley, and U Chit Ko Ko on the "List of Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Principal Climbers, etc. Recorded from Burma")". *Contributions from the United States National Herbarium*. **45**: 1–590. [ISSN 0097-1618](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0097-1618). [JSTOR 23493222](https://www.jstor.org/stable/23493222)

1. ["*Lilium brownii* in Flora of China"](http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027704). *efloras.org*. Retrieved 2020-01-17.

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