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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Gossypium
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 693. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 309. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Cotton
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erioxylum
|authority=Rose & Standley
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ingenhouzia de
|authority=Candolle
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Selera
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Thurberia
|authority=
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Gossypium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gossypium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek gossypion, cotton, or Arabic goz or gothn, a silky or soft substance
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 188, 215, 218
|treatment_page=page 250
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism coating;whole_organism growth form"><b>Shrubs </b>[trees], hairy or glabrate, not viscid.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation"><b>Stems </b>erect [or procumbent].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stipule duration;stipule shape"><b>Leaves:</b> stipules persistent, subulate or linear to falcate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;base shape;base shape;margin architecture or shape;surface pubescence;surface pubescence">blade ovate, unlobed, shallowly lobed, or deeply parted, base subcordate or cordate, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or stellate-hairy, often with abaxial foliar nectaries.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence position"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary, solitary flowers or flowers sympodially arranged;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="flower architecture or arrangement or growth form;flower arrangement;bractlet duration;bractlet duration;bractlet quantity;bractlet fusion">involucellar bractlets deciduous or persistent, 3, distinct.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="calyx size;calyx shape;lobe architecture;lobe shape;lobe shape;lobe pubescence;lobe pubescence"><b>Flowers:</b> calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes sometimes unribbed, ovate or triangular, glabrous or hairy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;center coloration">corolla cream or yellow [rose], sometimes fading rose, with or without dark spot at center;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="staminal column position">staminal column included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="ovary architecture">ovary 3–5-carpellate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="style architecture">style unbranched;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="stigma shape">stigmas decurrent-clavate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="fruits capsule orientation;fruits capsule shape;fruits capsule shape;fruits capsule texture;fruits capsule pubescence"><b>Fruits </b>capsules, erect, not inflated, ovoid or subglobose to oblong, leathery, usually glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>[2–] 24, densely comose to glabrate or glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="seed atypical quantity;seed quantity;seed pubescence;x chromosome quantity">x = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=s;sc United States;w Mexico;South America;Asia (Middle East);Africa;Australia;nearly worldwide
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Involucellar bractlets broadly cordate-ovate, margins laciniate; petals 2–5 cm; capsules 2–4 cm; seeds comose (cottony); leaf blades shallowly lobed, lobes broadly ovate.
|[[Gossypium hirsutum|Gossypium hirsutum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Involucellar bractlets ligulate, margins entire or apically toothed; petals 1.5–4.5 cm; capsules 1–1.5 cm; seeds glabrous, glabrate, or strigose (not cottony); leaf blades unlobed or lobes narrowly lanceolate
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Involucellar bractlets deciduous before anthesis, margins entire; petals 2.5–4.5 cm, yellow; seeds 8 mm, strigose (hairs brownish, tightly appressed); leaf blades unlobed; petioles terete.
|[[Gossypium armourianum|Gossypium armourianum]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Involucellar bractlets persistent, margins entire or apically toothed; petals 1.5–2.5 cm, cream; seeds 3–4 mm, glabrous or glabrate; leaf blades 3–5-lobed, lobes narrowly lanceolate (4+ times as long as wide); petioles quadrangular.
|[[Gossypium thurberi|Gossypium thurberi]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Gossypium
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Erioxylum;Ingenhouzia de;Selera;Thurberia
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=s;sc United States;w Mexico;South America;Asia (Middle East);Africa;Australia;nearly worldwide
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V6/V6_453.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Gossypium
|base shape=cordate;subcordate
|blade shape=parted;lobed;parted;lobed;unlobed;ovate
|bractlet duration=persistent;deciduous
|bractlet fusion=distinct
|bractlet quantity=3
|calyx shape=not inflated
|calyx size=not accrescent
|center coloration=dark spot
|corolla coloration=fading rose;yellow;cream
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|flower arrangement=arranged
|fruits capsule orientation=erect
|fruits capsule pubescence=glabrous
|fruits capsule shape=subglobose;oblong
|fruits capsule texture=leathery
|inflorescence position=axillary
|lobe architecture=unribbed
|lobe pubescence=hairy;glabrous
|lobe shape=triangular;ovate
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|ovary architecture=3-5-carpellate
|seed atypical quantity=2;24
|seed pubescence=densely comose;glabrate or glabrous
|seed quantity=24
|staminal column position=included
|stem orientation=erect
|stigma shape=decurrent-clavate
|stipule duration=persistent
|stipule shape=linear;falcate
|style architecture=unbranched
|surface pubescence=stellate-hairy;glabrous
|whole_organism coating=not viscid
|whole_organism growth form=shrub
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrate;hairy
|x chromosome quantity=13
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