Name: from the Latin “conus” (cone) and Greek “phytum” (plant).
Region: South African, Namibia.
English: Buttons; Water blisters; Sphaeroids; Conos; Cone plants; Dumplings; Button plants.
Dutch: Knopies; Waterblasies.
Botany: tiny succulent plants; dwarf cushion-forming, single-bodied succulents; leaves ± 5 cm long, partially or entirely fused, bilobed, spherical to ovoid to tubular to conical, some epidermal windows on the top, smooth to slightly rough to hairy,stacking up; stem has only one pair of leaves; flowering luxuriantly