Neolloydia conoidea

Neolloydia conoidea
N. conoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Cactaceae
Subfamily:	Cactoideae
Tribe:	Cacteae
Genus:	Neolloydia
Species:	N. conoidea
Binomial name
Neolloydia conoidea (DC.) Britton & Rose
Synonyms[1][2]
Cactus conoideus (DC.) Kuntze Echinocactus conoideus (DC.) Poselger Mammillaria ceratites Quehl Mammillaria conoidea DC. Mammillaria grandiflora Otto ex Pfeiff. Neolloydia ceratites (Quehl) Britton & Rose Neolloydia texensis Britton & Rose

Neolloydia conoidea, common name Texas cone cactus or Chihuahuan beehive, is a species of cactus native to western Texas and to the Mexican states of Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas. It is a part of the Chihuahuan Desert desert scrub and the Tamaulipan thorn scrub.^[3][4]

Neolloydia conoidea is an unbranched cylindrical cactus up to 24 cm (9.6 inches) tall and up to 8 cm (3.2 inches) in diameter. Outer tepals of the flowers are whitish with green midveins; inner tepals bright pink-rose to magenta. Fruits are pale yellow-olive with black seeds.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

References

1. Tropicos
2. The Plant List
3. Flora of North America v 4 p 438
4. CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico City.
5. Britton, Nathaniel Lord, & Rose, Joseph Nelson. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 49(8): 252. 1922.
6. Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 17: 112. 1828.
7. Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
8. Dave's Plant Files, Chihuahuan beehive
9. Tucson Gardener, Neolloydia conoidea, D.S. Franges, Tucson, Arizona