Conophytum flavum

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

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.

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