Consolea

Consolea is a genus of cactus, named after Italian botanist Michelangelo Console. Members of the genus are native to the West Indies and Florida in the United States. Members of this genus consist of trees up to 10 m in height; they are dioecious or subdioecious.^[1]

Consolea
Consolea spinosissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Subfamily:	Opuntioideae
Tribe:	Opuntieae
Genus:	Consolea Lem.
Species
See text

Accepted species

As of November 2022^[update], Plants of the World Online accepted 10 species:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Distribution	Conservation status
	Consolea acaulis (Ekman & Werderm) F.M.Knuth	Hispaniola (Haiti)	NE
	Consolea corallicola Small	Little Torch Key and Swan Key in the Florida Keys	CR[3]
	Consolea falcata (Ekman & Werderm) F.M.Knuth	Hispaniola (Haiti)	CR[4]
	Consolea macracantha (Griseb.) A.Berger	Cuba	LC[5]
	Consolea millspaughii (Britton) A.Berger	Cuba, The Bahamas, Cayman Islands	LC[6]
	Consolea moniliformis (L.) A.Berger	Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Haiti), Puerto Rico (Mona Island, Culebra, Desecheo Island)	LC[7]
	Consolea nashii (Britton) A.Berger	Cuba, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands	LC[8]
	Consolea picardae (Urb.) Areces	Southern and eastern Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Haiti)	DD[9]
	Consolea rubescens (Salm-Dyck. ex DC.) Lem.	Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles (from Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago)	LC[10]
	Consolea spinosissima (Mill.) Lem.	Jamaica	EN[11]
	Consolea testudinis-crus (F.A.C.Weber) Mottram & Hoxey	Hispaniola (Haiti)	NE