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Lilium

Details of the flower (e.g., tepal color, tepal shape, flower orientation) are often distorted or obscured in pressing. Noting these features on herbarium labels will assist with identification at a later date. Reference: Skinner (2002).

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L. lancifolium
1a. Leaves alternate throughout, with bulbils in the upper axils; mature buds evenly tapering to a ± flat apex with 3 green, apical, rounded processes
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1b. Leaves mostly or all whorled, without axillary bulbils; mature buds not as above
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  L. philadelphicum
  2a. Flowers erect; tepals with a distinct, abruptly narrowed, basal portion [Fig. 157]; inflorescence with 1–3 flowers
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  2b. Flowers nodding; tepals gradually narrowed in the basal portion; inflorescence  with (1–) 2–22 flowers
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    L. canadense
    3a. Style similar in color to the tepals; tepals merely somewhat recurved, the outer tepals lacking abaxial ridges; buds round in cross-section; margins and veins of leaf blades roughened on the abaxial surface with triangular epidermal spicules
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    L. superbum
    3b. Style pale green; tepals strongly recurved, forming a “Turk’s-cap” perianth, the outer tepals with 2 faint, abaxial ridges; buds triangular in cross-section; margins and veins of the leaf blades not roughened on the abaxial surface

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