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Gossypium

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malvales Family: Malvaceae Genus: Gossypium

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Description

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Growth Form: Annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs to small trees, usually glandular punctate throughout, glabrous or pubescent.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades cordate-ovate, sometimes palmately 3-lobed, 5-lobed, or 7-lobed. Lower surface usually with a gland at base of midvein. Petioles present. Stipules present.

Flowers: Flowers axillary, solitary or in cymes, sometimes forming sympodial branchlets; Involucral bracts 3, usually distinct and inserted above trimerous nectaries, filiform to foliaceous, usually dentate to lacerate, usually persistent. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx truncate or 5-toothed to 5-lobed, sepals connate, the lobes valvate in bud. Corolla actinomorphic to moderately zygomorphic, cream-colored to yellow, rose, or mauve, usually maroon-spotted at base, campanulate to funnelform, the corolla of 5 petals, obovate, distinct from each other but adnate at base to staminal column, convolute in bud. Stamens 5 to numerous, monadelphous, forming a staminal column, staminal column included, 5-toothed at apex; antheriferous for most of its length or only in upper 1/2; anthers monothecal. Pollen globose, echinate. Ovary superior, 3-5-celled, the carpels borne in a single whorl or rarely seemingly superposed whorls, placentation axile; ovules several per cell; style exceeding the staminal column, unbranched, clavate; stigma 3-5-lobed, decurrent.

Fruit: Loculicidally dehiscent; usually glabrous capsules. Seeds turbinate; with or without endosperm; usually covered with a close tomentum and sometimes a loose; woolly pubescence (lint; which in some species is the cotton of commerce).

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 693 (1753)

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