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Gossypium punctatum

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Identification
Gossypium herbaceum L. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hutchinson, J. B., Gossypium herbaceum L. [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Vollesen, K., Gossypium obtusifolium Roxb. ex G.Don [family MALVACEAE ] Gossypium abyssinicum Watt [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Watt, G., Gossypium punctatum Schumach. [family MALVACEAE ] Gossypium barbadense unrecorded [family MALVACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gossypium obtusifolium
  • Gossypium nervosum
  • Gossypium harrisii
  • Gossypium punctatum
  • Gossypium herbaceum
  • Gossypium birkinshawii
  • Gossypium barbadense
  • Gossypium hirsutum
  • Gossypium abyssinicum

Flora

Entry for GOSSYPIUM Barbadense Linn. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
GOSSYPIUM Barbadense Linn. [family MALVACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 456.
GOSSYPIUM punctatum Schum. et Thonn. [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Guin. 310.
GOSSYPIUM vitifolium Lam. [family MALVACEAE], Dict. ii. 135.
GOSSYPIUM peruvianum DC. [family MALVACEAE], Prod. i. 456.
Information
A small shrub with smooth, purplish, somewhat angular branches sprinkled with black dots. Leaves stalked, 1-glandulose, deeply palmately 3–5-lobed; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; upper leaves cordate, sometimes entire or waved at the margin; stalks for the most part as long as the blades. Stipules falcate, persistent. Peduncles angular, 1-flowered, shorter than the petioles. Epicalyx of 3 large, cordate, acute, deeply laciniate segments, the central one longer than the others. Corolla yellow. Ripe capsule 1–2 in. long, ovate, glabrous; valves woody, mucronate. Seeds free or combined, covered with an easily separable white or nankeen-coloured down.
Range
This species is widely diffused by cultivation in the warmer regions of the globe, and furnishes the various sorts of “American Cotton.”
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Burton!Mozamb. Dist. Zambesi, Lupata, and elsewhere, “in a wild state,” Dr. Kirk!Abyssinia Nile Land Dillon and Petit!Nubia Nile Land Schweinfurth! lat. 7° S., Speke and Grant!North Central Kouka, E. Vogel!Abbeokuta Upper Guinea Irving!Niger Upper Guinea Barter!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Burton!
Notes
Cultivated in many districts of tropical Africa. The Peruvian Cotton, G. peruvianum, DC., seems to be only a variety of this species, differing in the coherent seeds. Dr. Kirk mentions this variety as being cultivated by the Makonde people 80 miles inland.

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