Conophytum flavum

Conophytum flavum
Conophytum flavum var. flavum
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Aizoaceae
Genus:	Conophytum
Species:	C. flavum
Binomial name
Conophytum flavum N.E.Br.

Conophytum flavum, the yellow cone plant, ^[2] is a small South African species of succulent flowering plant of the family Aizoaceae.

Description

This species has rounded, flattened (truncated) bodies, covered with many idioblasts. Its flowers, which appear in autumn and winter, are unscented and yellow (flavum is Latin for "golden" ^{[3] [4]} ). ^[5]

Distribution and habitat

It is indigenous to the arid winter-rainfall Namaqualand region, in the far west of South Africa. Here it grows in rocky outcrops and crevices.

In cultivation in the UK this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. ^[2] (confirmed 2017). ^[6]

• 
  The subspecies novicium
• 
  The subspecies flavum

References

1. Young, A.J. (2022). "Conophytum flavum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022 e.T202850111A202872477. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T202850111A202872477.en . Retrieved 1 August 2023.
2. "RHS Plantfinder - Conophytum flavum" . Retrieved 12 January 2018.
3. Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. p. 224. ISBN   978-1-84533-731-5.
4. Sia Morhardt and Emil Morhardt California Desert Flowers: An Introduction to Families, Genera, and Species , p. 101, at Google Books
5. Conophytum flavum - Information page
6. "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 22. Retrieved 24 January 2018.

Further reading

• Hammer,S.(2002) Dumpling and his wife: New views of the genus Conophytum EAE Creative Colour Ltd. ISBN   0-9539326-1-3.
• Hammer,S.(1993) The genus Conophytum : A Conograph Succulent Plant Publications, Pretoria. ISBN   0-620-17633-4.
• National Botanical Institute of South Africa.(1993) List of Southern African Succulent Plants Umdaus Press. ISBN   1-919 766-04-9