''Consolea'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

cactus A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Gre ...

, named after

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botanist

Michelangelo Console Michelangelo Console (Palermo, 24 July 1812 – Palermo, 13 May 1897) was an Italian botanist primarily known for his work on cacti. Life and work Michelangelo Console was professor of botany at the Palermo Botanical Garden, where he worked with ...

. Members of the genus are native to the

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and

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in the

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. Members of this genus consist of trees up to 10 m in height; they are

dioecious Dioecy (; ; adj. dioecious , ) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproducti ...

or subdioecious.

Accepted species

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accepted 10 species:''Consolea'' in The Plant List
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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q150122 Opuntioideae genera Opuntioideae