Levant cotton Gossypium herbaceum, copyright Patricio Novoa Quezada.Belongs within: Eumalvoideae.
Gossypium, cotton bushes, is a pantropical genus of shrubs that commonly bear hairy seeds. A number of species are widely cultivated as a source of fibre.
Characters (from Harden 1990): Perennial or facultative annual shrubs, often deciduous. Leaves entire or variously lobed, mostly 3-5-lobed, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers usually solitary, rarely clustered, axillary. Epicalyx segments 3, narrow to cordate, entire or deeply cut. Calyx short, truncate, 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Petals often large, usually with a darker area at the base. Ovary 3-5-locular; loculi with 2-several ovules; style and stigma usually long and slender. Fruit a capsule, 3-5-locular; seeds usually hairy.
<==Gossypium
|--G. acuminatum C55
|--G. amourianum P90
|--G. arboreum P06
| |--G. a. var. arboreum P06
| `--G. a. var. wightianum (Tod.) Almeida 1996 (see below for synonymy) P06
|--G. aridum P90
|--G. australe LK14
|--G. barbadense [incl. G. peruvianum] H90
|--G. costulatum LK14
|--G. enthyle LK14
|--G. exiguum LK14
|--G. herbaceum WS01
| |--G. h. var. herbaceum S00
| `--G. h. var. africanum S00
|--G. hirsutum LK14
|--G. klotzschianum P90
|--G. lobatum WS01
|--G. londonderriense LK14
|--G. marchantii LK14
|--G. nobile LK14
|--G. obtusifolium C55
|--G. pilosum LK14
|--G. populifolium LK14
|--G. pulchellum LK14
|--G. punctatum C55
|--G. raimondii P90
|--G. religiosum C55
|--G. robinsonii EF04
|--G. rotundifolium LK14
|--G. sturtianum [incl. G. gossypioides, G. sturtii] H90
| |--G. s. var. sturtianum H90
| `--G. s. var. nandewarense H90
|--G. thurberi P90
|--G. tomentosum P90
`--G. tribolum P90
Gossypium arboreum var. wightianum (Tod.) Almeida 1996 [=G. wightianum Tod. 1863, G. herbaceum var. wightianum (Tod.) Cooke 1901, G. obtusifolium var. wightianum Watt. 1907] P06
*Type species of generic name indicated
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[P06] Parmar, P. J. 2006. Additions to the flora of Gujarat from Mehsana and Kutch districts (N. Gujarat).
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[S00] Siddiqi, M. R. 2000.
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