Gossypium tomentosum

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Overview

Ornamental shrub from New Guinea, grown widely for its variegated foliage . The short brownish fibers on the seeds of the Hawaiian cotton are not commercially useful but the Hawaiian plants have been used in cotton breeding programs in attempts to improve disease resistance in commercial cotton.

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Common Names

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Description

Genus Gossypium

Herbs annual or perennial , sometimes shrubs ; all parts irregularly dotted with dark oil glands . Leaf blades usually palmately 3-9-lobed, rarely entire. Flowers solitary, subterminal . Pedicel not articulated, usually with glands below insertion of epicalyx lobes . Epicalyx lobes 3(-7), foliaceous , glandular , free or connate at base , entire or toothed to deeply laciniate . Calyx cup-shaped, nearly truncate to 5-lobed. Corolla white or yellow, sometimes with purple center, large; petals 5, apex rounded . Staminal column with many anthers along entire length, apex truncate. Ovary 3-5-loculed; ovules 2 to many per locule; style short, rod-shaped, stigma clavate , 5-grooved. Capsule globose or ellipsoid , loculicidally dehiscent . Seeds globose, densely white long woolly , mixed with short hairs or without short hairs.

About 20 species: tropical and subtropical regions; four species (all introduced ) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Goodyera ophioides (Fern.) Rydb.
2. Goodyera repens ophioides /i> (Fern.) A. Löve & Simon
3. Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fern.
4. Peramium ophioides (Fern.) Rydb.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Fl. vit. 1:22. 1865

Name verified on 10-Aug-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 12-Aug-1999

Similar Species

Members of the genus Gossypium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 246 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

G. abyssinicum · G. acuminatum · G. africanum · G. albescens · G. albiflorum · G. album · G. 'Alpina' · G. amblospermum · G. anomalum · G. anomalum subsp. senarense · G. arboretum · G. arboreum (Red-Flowered Cotton Tree) · G. areysianum · G. aridum · G. aridum var. palmeri · G. armourianum · G. asiaticum · G. auritum · G. australe (Australian Native Cotton) · G. australiense · G. bakeri · G. barbadense (American-Egyptian Cotton) · G. barbadense L. var. brasiliense (Macf.) Mauer · G. barbadense L. 'Pirna' · G. barbadense subsp. peruvianum · G. barbadense subsp. vitifolium · G. barbadense var. brasiliense · G. barbadense var. braziliense · G. barbadense var. breve (American-Egyptian Cotton) · G. barbadense var. darwinii · G. barbadense var. deltaicum (American-Egyptian Cotton) · G. barbadense var. marie-galante · G. barbadense var. maritimum · G. barbadense var. nubarense (American-Egyptian Cotton) · G. barbadense var. pedatum · G. barbadense var. peruvianum (Peru Tree Cotton) · G. barbadense var. strictiflorum (American-Egyptian Cotton) · G. barbodense · G. barbosanum · G. benadirense · G. 'Bet Dagan 11' · G. bickii · G. bicolor · G. birkinshawii · G. brasiliense · G. 'Bravada' · G. brevilanatum · G. bricchettii · G. caespitosum · G. caicoense · G. californicum · G. calycotum · G. cambayense · G. capitis-viridis (Cape Verde Cotton) · G. cernuum · G. chinense · G. 'Christina' · G. cinereum · G. 'Clara' · G. comesii · G. 'Condor' · G. contextum · G. convexum · G. costulatum · G. croceum · G. cunninghamii · G. darwinii (Darwins Cotton) · G. davidsonii · G. divaricatum · G. drynarioides · G. eglandulosum · G. ekmanianum · G. elatum · G. ellenbeckii · G. enthyle · G. evertum · G. exiguum · G. figarei · G. flaviflorum · G. 'Fotini' · G. frutescens · G. fruticulosum · G. fuscum · G. glabrum · G. gossypioides · G. guyanense · G. harknesii · G. harknessii · G. harrisii · G. herbaceum (North-African Cotton) · G. herbaceum 'Erlene's Green' (Cotton) · G. herbaceum subsp. africanum · G. hirsutum (American Upland Cotton) · G. hirsutum L. 'Akala' · G. hirsutum 'Alexandros' · G. hirsutum 'Amanta' · G. hirsutum 'Atlas' · G. hirsutum 'Babylon' · G. hirsutum 'Campo' · G. hirsutum 'Carat'

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Further Reading

• Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen. Bremen: Im Selbstverlag des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins, 1866- GER url p. 431.
• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 1949-1951 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- ENG url p. 289.
• Chloroplast pigments and chromatographic analysis. University Park, Pennsylvania State University[1958] ENG url p. 149.
• Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreichs: versuch einer Technischen Rohstofflehre des Pflanzenreiches / Unter Mitwirkung von Max Bemberger, von Julius von Wiesner. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1914. GER url p. 974.
• Fryxell, P. A. 1976. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1491:73.
• Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe. (Nat Hist Cotton) 68.
• Fryxell, P. A. 1992. A revised taxonomic interpretation of Gossypium L. (Malvaceae). Rheedea 2:159.
• Gartenflora. Erlangen: F. Enke, 1852-1940. GER url p. 176.
• Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington [etc., Washington Academy of Sciences] ENG url p. 167.
• Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 251.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-84. ENG url p. 23.
• Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed. (F Fiji)
• Taxon 27:131.
• The Hawaiian forester and agriculturist. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1904-1933. ENG url p. 291.
• Feng Kuo-mei. 1984. Malvaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 1-102.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 05, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 28, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 05, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2667300
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-502820
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13764448
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:559846-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 17948
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 502820
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 559846-1
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDMAL0E040
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: GOSA3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 41053

Footnotes

1. "Gossypium". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 264, 296. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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