Consolea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Cactaceae
Subfamilia: Opuntioideae
Tribus: Opuntieae
Genus: Consolea
Species: C. corallicola – C. falcata – C. microcarpa – C. macracantha – C. millspaughii – C. moniliformis – C. nashii – C. rubescens – C. spinosissima – C. testudinis-crus
Name

Consolea Lem., Rev. Hort. [Paris] 174. (1862)

Type species: Consolea spinosissima Lem., Rev. Hort. [Paris] 174. (1862)

Synonyms

Homotypic
Opuntia sect. Consolea (Lem.) L.D.Benson, Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 46(2): 80. (1974)

Note: There is little or no agreement for the species circumscription - see references, but the above follows that used by Majure et al. (2021) as the most current.
References

Korotkova, N. et al. 2021. Consolea in Cactaceae at Caryophyllales.org. A global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Dec. 30. Reference page.
Majure, L.C., Barrios, D., Díaz, E., Zumwalde, B.A., Testo, W. & Negrón‐Ortíz, V. 2021. Pleistocene aridification underlies the evolutionary history of the Caribbean endemic, insular, giant Consolea (Opuntioideae). American Journal of Botany 108(2): 200-215. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1610 Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Consolea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Sept. 11. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. Consolea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Sept. 11. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2021. Consolea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Sept. 11.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Consolea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Consolea is a genus of cacti, named after Italian botanist Michelangelo Console. The genus is native to the Caribbean and Florida. It has 10 accepted species.[1] Members of this genus consist of trees up to 10 m in height; they are dioecious or subdioecious.[2]
Accepted species

As of February 2013, the Plant List accepted 10 species:[1]

Consolea acaulis (Ekman & Werderm.) F.M.Knuth
Consolea corallicola Small
Consolea falcata (Ekman & Werderm) F.M.Knuth
Consolea macracantha (Griseb.) A.Berger
Consolea millspaughii (Britton) A.Berger
Consolea moniliformis (L.) A.Berger
Consolea nashii (Britton) A.Berger
Consolea rubescens (Salm-Dyck. ex DC.) Lem.
Consolea spinosissima (Mill.) Lem.
Consolea urbaniana (Werderm.) F.M.Knuth

References

Consolea in The Plant List
Majure, Lucas C.; Barrios, Duniel; Díaz, Edgardo; Zumwalde, Bethany A.; Testo, Weston; Negrón‐Ortíz, Vivian (2021). "Pleistocene aridification underlies the evolutionary history of the Caribbean endemic, insular, giant Consolea (Opuntioideae)". American Journal of Botany. 108 (2): 200–215. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1610. PMID 33598914.