Conophytum is a genus

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 of South Africa

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n and Namibia

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n succulent plants that belong to the Aizoaceae

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 family. The name is derived from the Latin “conus” (cone) and Greek “phytum” (plant). The plants are also known as knopies (buttons), waterblasies (water blisters), sphaeroids, conos, cone plants, dumplings, or button plants.

Description

Conophytum species are dwarf cushion forming or single-bodied succulents.

Conophytums are tiny plants with succulent leaves ranging from 1/4" to 2" in length. These leaves are partially to entirely fused along their centers. Each leaf pair (together referred to as a body) ranges in shape from "bilobbed" to spherical to ovoid to tubular to conical. They may have "windows" on the top of their leaves. To the naked eye the epidermis ranges from very smooth to slightly rough to "hairy" depending on the microscopic epidermal cell shape and structure. They . In their normal, natural state each stem has only one pair of leaves at a time though one plant may have dozens of stems and thus dozens of leaf pairs. When very heavy rains come to their native habitat they may grow luxuriantly and develop two leaf pairs per stem simultaneously; this is called "stacking up" of the leave.

Species

This is a list of species in the genus Conophytum.

• Conophytum achabense
• Conophytum acutum
• Conophytum albiflorum
• Conophytum angelicae
• Conophytum armianum
• Conophytum arthurolfago
• Conophytum auriflorum
• Conophytum bachelorum
• Conophytum bicarinatum
• Conophytum bilobum
• Conophytum blandum
• Conophytum bolusiae
• Conophytum breve
• Conophytum brunneum
• Conophytum bruynsii
• Conophytum burgeri
• Conophytum calculus
• Conophytum caroli
• Conophytum carpianum
• Conophytum chauviniae
• Conophytum chrisocruxum
• Conophytum chrisolum
• Conophytum comptonii
• Conophytum concavum
• Conophytum concordans
• Conophytum cubicum
• Conophytum depressum
• Conophytum devium
• Conophytum ectypum
• Conophytum ernstii
• Conophytum ficiforme
• Conophytum flavum
• Conophytum francoiseae
• Conophytum fraternum
• Conophytum friedrichiae
• Conophytum frutescens
• Conophytum fulleri
• Conophytum globosum
• Conophytum halenbergense
• Conophytum hammeri
• Conophytum hermarium
• Conophytum herreanthus
• Conophytum hians
• Conophytum irmae
• Conophytum jarmilae
• Conophytum joubertii
• Conophytum jucundum
• Conophytum khamiesbergense
• Conophytum klinghardtense
• Conophytum kubusanum
• Conophytum limpidum
• Conophytum lithopsoides
• Conophytum loeschianum
• Conophytum longibracteatum
• Conophytum longum
• Conophytum luckhoffii
• Conophytum lydiae
• Conophytum marginatum
• Conophytum maughanii
• Conophytum meyeri
• Conophytum minimum
• Conophytum minusculum
• Conophytum minutum
• Conophytum mirabile
• Conophytum obcordellum
• Conophytum obscurum
• Conophytum pageae
• Conophytum pellucidum
• Conophytum phoeniceum
• Conophytum piluliforme
• Conophytum praesectum
• Conophytum pubescens
• Conophytum pubicalyx
• Conophytum quaesitum
• Conophytum ratum
• Conophytum reconditum
• Conophytum regale
• Conophytum ricardianum
• Conophytum roodiae
• Conophytum rugosum
• Conophytum saxetanum
• Conophytum schlechteri
• Conophytum semivestitum
• Conophytum smorenskaduense
• Conophytum stephanii
• Conophytum stevens-jonesianum
• Conophytum subfenestratum
• Conophytum subterraneum
• Conophytum swanepoelianum
• Conophytum tantillum
• Conophytum taylorianum
• Conophytum tomasi
• Conophytum truncatum
• Conophytum turrigerum
• Conophytum uviforme
• Conophytum vanheerdei
• Conophytum velutinum
• Conophytum verrucosum
• Conophytum violaciflorum
• Conophytum wettsteinii