Flora of Mozambique: Cultivated plants
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5020.000 Gossypium
Description of the genus
Shrubs or herbs, dotted with black oil-glands. Leaves palmately lobed. Flowers yellow, sometimes purplish. Epicalyx of 3 leaf-like and persistent bracts, deeply incised (in ours). Calyx cup-shaped, truncate. Style not branched, clavate. Ovary 3-5-locular. Fruit a loculicidally-dehiscent capsule. Seeds usually with floss (or lint). Worldwide: 39 species from warm temperate to tropical regions |
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| Species | Content |
| hirsutum L. | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Gossypium:
Flora of Mozambique: native/naturalised Gossypium pageePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Gossypium
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Gossypium
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Gossypium
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Gossypium
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Gossypium
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