On the PBS wiki we sometimes include synonyms for the benefit of the public to help them learn what is the correct name and which plants are the same. So many of the plants we have grown have over time had multiple names and we don't usually include all of them although it is helpful to include ones still in use. This is complicated by more than one opinion about correct names so it is difficult to know when someone proposes changing a name whether this new name is going to be accepted. Here is the Kew entry: Lilium leichtlinii var. maximowiczii (Regel) Baker, Gard. Chron. 1871: 1422 (1871). Homotypic Synonyms: * Lilium maximowiczii Regel, Index Seminum (LE) 1866(Suppl.): 26 (1867). * Basionym/Replaced Synonym Heterotypic Synonyms: Lilium pseudotigrinum Carrière, Rev. Hort. 1867: 411 (1867). Lilium maximowiczii var. tigrinum Regel, Gartenflora 19: 290 (1870). Lilium leichtlinii var. pseudotigrinum (Carrière) Baker, J. Hort. Soc. London, n.s., 4: 47 (1877). Lilium maximowiczii var. bakeri Elwes, Monogr. Lilium: t. 40, f. 2 (1880). Lilium maximowiczii var. pseudotigrinum (Carrière) Elwes, Monogr. Lilium: t. 40, f. 4 (1880). Lilium maximowiczii var. regelii Elwes, Monogr. Lilium: t. 40, f. 3 (1880). Lilium leichtlinii var. tigrinum (Regel) G.Nicholson, Ill. Dict. Gard. 2: 271 (1887). Lilium leichtlinii f. pseudotigrinum (Carrière) H.Hara & Kitam., Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 36: 93 (1985). The wiki entry says: "Lilium leichtlinii is from Japan. The yellow form of Lilium leichtlinii with reddish-purple spots grows only in central Honshu, Japan's main island, among tall grasses in rich, moist meadows. The stem is purplish; the buds (and the outside base of the tepals) are woolly. Height 60-120 cm (2-4'). The flowers are smaller than L. lancifolium. The variety maximowiczii synonymous with variety tigrinum has orange flowers." Reading this entry it seems to me that all it says is the Lilium leichtlinii var. maximowiczii ( a name accepted by Kew) was also published under the name var. tigrinum in 1887 in The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening. I believe that is all that is meant by this. The Tropicos data base also has this listing as a synonym for var. maximowiczii. I suppose we could change the synonym reference to syn. Lilium maximowiczii var. tigrinum, syn. Lilium pseudotigrinum, or include all three but I'm wondering if this is really necessary. The name cited by Iain, Lilium maximowiczii var. leichtlinii is not listed in either place. I know Iain is an expert on the genus Lilium. I believe most of us in this group are merely gardeners. We try to be as accurate as we can on the wiki and welcome corrections, but in this case it is not clear to me what the problem is. Mary Sue