Lilium maximowiczii Regel, Gartenflora 17: 322. 1868; L. pseudotigrinum Carrière.

Bulb white, globose, (2--)4 cm in diam. Stem 0.5--2 m, with purple spots, papillose, white woolly when young. Leaves scattered, sessile or shortly petiolate, narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3--10(--14) × 0.6--1.2(--1.6) cm, white woolly when young, glabrous when mature, 3--7-veined, axil without bulblets, margin papillose, apex acute-acuminate. Flowers 2--8(--10) in a raceme, rarely solitary, nodding. Tepals revolute, red, with purple spots, lanceolate, 4.5--6.5(--8.5) × 0.9--1.5 cm; nectaries papillose and with fimbriate projections on both surfaces, densely so proximally on adaxial surface. Stamens diverging; filaments 3.5--4 cm, glabrous; anthers vermilion, ca. 1.1 cm. Ovary cylindric, 1.2--1.3 cm × 2--3 mm. Style ca. 3 cm. Capsule ellipsoid, ca. 3 cm. Fl. Jul--Aug. 2 n = 24*.

Lilium leichtlinii var. leichtlinii occurs in Japan (except Hokkaido).

Sandy places along valleys, mountain grasslands, limestone or serpentine areas; near sea level to 1300 m. Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi [Japan, Korea, Russia (Primorskiy Kray)].