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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Common Names in English:
Hawai'i Cotton, Hawaiian Cotton, Ma'o
Common Names in Portuguese:
Algadoeiro, Algodão
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."Gossypium". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 264, 296. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Malvales
()
- Family:
Janiroidea
()
- Subfamily:
Malvoideae
()
- Tribe:
Gossypieae
()
- Genus:
Gossypium
()
- Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 693. 1753.
- Cotton
- Specific epithet:
tomentosum
- Nutt. ex Seem.
- Botanical name: - Gossypium tomentosum Nutt. ex Seem.
- Specific epithet:
tomentosum
- Nutt. ex Seem.
- Genus:
Gossypium
(
- Tribe:
Gossypieae
(
- Subfamily:
Malvoideae
(
- Family:
Janiroidea
(
- Order:
Malvales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Goodyera ophioides (Fern.) Rydb.
- Goodyera repens subsp. ophioides (Fern.) A. Löve & Simon
- Goodyera repens var. ophioides Fern.
- Gossypium tomentosum Nutt. ex Seem.
- 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
There are approximately 359 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
G. 'Alpina' · G. 'Bet Dagan 11' · G. 'Bravada' · G. 'Christina' · G. 'Clara' · G. 'Condor' · G. 'Fotini' · G. 'Indiana' · G. 'Lachata' · G. 'Lia' · G. 'Maria Del Mar' · G. 'Nata' · G. 'Sofia' · G. 'Sor Angela' · G. 'Tabladilla-13' · G. 'Tabladilla-16' · G. 'Victoria' · G. 'Virgen De Gracia' · G. abyssinicum · G. acuminatum · G. africanum · G. albescens · G. albiflorum · G. album · G. amblospermum · G. anomalum · G. anomalum senarense · G. anomalum subsp. senarense · G. arboretum · G. arboreum (China Cotton) · G. arboreum var. wightianum · G. areysianum · G. aridum · G. aridum var. palmeri · G. armourianum · G. asiaticum · G. aureum · G. auritum · G. australe (Australian Native Cotton) · G. australe var. australe · G. australe var. pedunculatum · G. australiense · G. bakeri · G. bani · G. barbadense (Cotton) · G. barbadense f. casimiranum · G. barbadense f. darwinii · G. barbadense f. eggersii · G. barbadense L. 'Pirna' · G. barbadense L. var. brasiliense (Macf.) Mauer · G. barbadense subsp. microcarpum · G. barbadense subsp. peruvianum · G. barbadense subsp. racemosum · G. barbadense subsp. sprucei · G. barbadense subsp. typicum · G. barbadense subsp. vitifolium · G. barbadense var. apospermum · G. barbadense var. brasiliense · G. barbadense var. braziliense · G. barbadense var. breve · G. barbadense var. caravonicum · G. barbadense var. cayanense · G. barbadense var. darwinii · G. barbadense var. deltaicum · G. barbadense var. eubarbadense · G. barbadense var. integrum · G. barbadense var. marie-galante · G. barbadense var. maritimum · G. barbadense var. microcarpum · G. barbadense var. nubarense · G. barbadense var. pedatum · G. barbadense var. peruvianum · G. barbadense var. rufum · G. barbadense var. strictiflorum · G. barbodense · G. barbosanum · G. benadirense · G. bickii · G. bicolor · G. birkinshawii · G. brasiliense var. apospermum · G. brevilanatum · G. bricchettii · G. caespitosum · G. caicoense · G. californicum · G. calycotum · G. cambayense · G. capitis-viridis · G. cavanillesianum · G. ceratodenum · G. cernuum · G. chinense · G. cinereum · G. comesii · G. contextum · G. convexum · G. costulatum · G. croceum · G. cunninghamii
Bibliography
- 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.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed. (F Fiji)
- Taxon 27:131.
- Feng Kuo-mei. 1984. Malvaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 1-102.
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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.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
- 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
