Gossypium L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Herbs, shrubs or small trees, with alternate petioled, usually lobed leaves, and large, mostly solitary, peduncled, yellow or white to purple flowers subtended by 3 broad, often cordate, incised bracts. Calyx truncate or 5-lobed. Stamen-column usually naked below. Ovary 5-eelled; ovules numerous in each cavity; style club-shaped, 5-grooved; stigmas 5. Capsule coriaceous, loeulieidally 5-valved. Seeds usually densely covered with long white hairs (cotton); endosperm thin or none; cotyledons plicate. [Latin for cotton, perhaps of Arabic origin.] About 40 species, of tropical distribution. Type species: Gossypium arboreum L.