''Lilium arboricola'' is an

epiphytic An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phoroph ...

lily species with green flowers, and orange-red anthers. It was first botanically described by

Francis Kingdon-Ward Francis Kingdon-Ward, born Francis Kingdon Ward OBE, (6 November 1885 in Manchester – 8 April 1958) was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He published most of his books as Frank Kingdon-Ward and this hyphenated for ...

and his assistants

Chit Ko Ko U Chit Ko Ko ( my, ချစ်ကိုကို, ; 1917-2008) was a noted Myanmar botanist. He produced a number of papers into botanical research he conducted in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. His 1961 paper on List of Trees and Shrubs, co-wri ...

and

Tha Hla Tha Hla ( my, သာလှ, ; 1916– ?) was a noted Burmese botanist and forestry warden. He began his career in Burmese forestry around 1934. In 1951, along with Chit Ko Ko he met English botanist Francis Kingdon-Ward and conducted further r ...

after a collection in the Shan region of

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in 1953. Specimens from this collection flowered once in cultivation in

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and were then lost. It was thought that it had been rediscovered in Lao Cai,

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, in 2006, and introduced thence to Britain and Canada, but this turned out to be a new species ('' Lilium eupetes'')Julian Shaw, Three New Crûg Farm Introductions, Plantsman 7(1): 39-43 (2008)
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References

arboricola Flora of Myanmar Epiphytes {{liliales-stub