Gossypium L.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Gossypium L.

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Shrubs or sometimes trees, stellate-pubescent or glabrate, more or less gland-dotted throughout. Leaves petiolate; blades deeply parted, the margin entire, usually with 1 or more nectaries on principal veins beneath. Rowers solitary in the leaf axils or in sympodial inflorescences; pedicels usually surmounted by trimerous nectaries; involucel 3-parted, the bracts small and scale-like or large and foliaceous, enclosing the bud, cordate, laciniate or entire, and persistent; calyx gamosepalous, truncate or 5-dentate (sometimes 5- lobed); corolla usually large and showy, white, cream, yellow, or rose, sometimes with dark center; androecium included, apically 5- dentate, the anthers numerous; style solitary with 3-5 decurrent stigmatic lobes, more or less exceeding the androecium. Capsule 3-5- celled, usually glabrous, often prominently gland-dotted; seeds usually pubescent or lanate.

  • Distribution

    A tropical and subtropical genus of 50 species from relatively arid areas of Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Mexico, and South America; some species are widely grown in cultivation as the source of commercial cotton.

    South America| México Mexico North America| Australia Oceania| Africa|