Convallaria

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Asparagaceae
Subfamilia: Nolinoideae
Tribus: Convallarieae
Genus: Convallaria
Species: C. keiskei - C. majalis – C. pseudomajalis

Name

Convallaria L., Sp. Pl. 1: 314 (1753); Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 148 (1754).

Lectotype species: Convallaria majalis L. (designated by Rafinesque, Fl. Tell. 4: 18 (1838))

Synonyms

Homotypic
Majanthemum O.Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 981. 5 Nov 1891 nom. illeg. (non Maianthemum F.H.Wiggers 1780, nom. cons.).
Lilium-convallium Tourn. ex Moench, Methodus: 636 (1794).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Europe
Northern Europe
Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden.
Middle Europe
Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland.
Southwestern Europe
France, Spain.
Southeastern Europe
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia.
Eastern Europe
Belarus, Baltic States, Krym, Central European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine.
Asia-Temperate
Siberia
Chita, Irkutsk Krasnoyarsk.
Russian Far East
Amur, Khabarovsk, Kuril Islands, Primorye, Sakhalin.
Middle Asia
Kazakhstan.
Caucasus
North Caucasus, Transcaucasus.
Western Asia
Turkey.
China
Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central, China Southeast.
Mongolia
Mongolia.
Eastern Asia
Japan, Korea.
Asia-Tropical
Indo-China
Myanmar.
Northern America
Southeastern U.S.A.
Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 314. Reference page.
Linnaeus, C. 1754. Genera Plantarum, ed. 5: 148. Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Convallaria in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Dec 4. Reference page.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Convallaria in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2018 Dec 4.

Vernacular names
العربية: كونفالاريا
azərbaycanca: İnciçiçəyi
беларуская: Ландыш
български: Момина сълза
català: Muguet
kaszëbsczi: Kòrëtnik
čeština: Konvalinka vonná
dansk: Liljekonval
Deutsch: Maiglöckchen
English: Lily-of-the-valley
Esperanto: Konvalo
eesti: Maikelluke
فارسی: موگه
suomi: Kielot
français: Muguet de mai
hornjoserbsce: Całtki
magyar: Gyöngyvirág
Ido: Maifloro
日本語: スズラン
ქართული: შროშანა
қазақша: Інжугүл
Ripoarisch: Maijlöcksche
Latina: Maialis
Lëtzebuergesch: Meeréischen
Limburgs: Meizäödsje
lietuvių: Pakalnutė
latviešu: Parastā kreimene
Nederlands: Lelietje-van-dalen
ирон: Джыджына
polski: Konwalia
русский: Ландыш
slovenčina: Konvalinka voňavá
српски / srpski: Ђурђевак
svenska: Liljekonvalj
Türkçe: Müge
українська: Конвалія травнева
oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча: Marvaridgul
Tiếng Việt: Linh lan
中文: 鈴蘭屬

Convallaria is a genus of flowering plants. It is usually described as a monotypic genus with the single species Convallaria majalis (lily-of-the-valley), but now some botanists distinguish up to three species, also including Convallaria keiskei and Convallaria montana.[1][2]
References

"Convallaria — the Plant List".
For the two species found in the eastern United States, Convallaria majalis and Convallaria pseudomajalis, as he calls the endemic taxon from the Appalachians, see Weakley, A. S. 2020. Flora of the southeastern United States. University of North Carolina Herbarium, North Carolina Botanical Garden. p. 281 (download page)