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Gossypium

The genus Gossypium is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Gossypium

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Gossypium anomalum Wawra & Peyr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium arboreum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium areysianum Deflers Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium aridum (Rose & Standl.) Skovst. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium australe F.Muell. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium barbadense L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium benadirense Mattei Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium bickii (F.M.Bailey) Prokh. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium bricchettii (Ulbr.) Vollesen Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium californicum Mauer Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium contextum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium costulatum Tod. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium cunninghamii Tod. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium darwinii G.Watt Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium dicladum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium ekmanianum Wittm. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium enthyle Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium evertum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium exiguum Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium harknessii Brandegee Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium herbaceum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium hirsutum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium hypadenum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium incanum (O.Schwartz) Hillc. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium irenaeum Lewton Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium klotzschianum Andersson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium laxum L.Ll.Phillips Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium lobatum Gentry Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium londonderriense Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium longicalyx J.B.Hutch. & B.J.S.Lee Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium marchantii Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium morrilli O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium mustelinum Miers ex G.Watt Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium nelsonii Fryxell Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium nobile Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium patens O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium pilosum Fryxell Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium populifolium (Benth.) F.Muell. ex Tod. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium pulchellum (C.A.Gardner) Fryxell Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium raimondii Ulbr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium robinsonii F.Muell. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium rotundifolium Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium schwendimanii Fryxell & S.D.Koch Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B.Hutch., Silow & S.G.Stephens Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium stocksii Mast. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium sturtianum (R.Br.) J.H.Willis Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium thespesioides (R. Br. ex Benth.) F. Muell. Accepted M TRO
Gossypium timorense Prokh. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium tridens O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium trifurcatum Vollesen Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium trilobum (Sessé & Moç. ex DC.) Skovst. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium triphyllum (Haw.) Hochr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium turneri Fryxell Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Gossypium vollesenii Fryxell Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 222 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Gossypium. Of these 55 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 151 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Gossypium. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 222 species names for the genus Gossypium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 55 24.8%
Synonym 153 68.9%
Unplaced 5 2.3%
Unassessed 9 4.1%

All names

The status of the 373 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Gossypium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 62 16.6%
Synonym 297 79.6%
Unplaced 5 1.3%
Unassessed 9 2.4%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 222 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Gossypium, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 55 148 0 0 203 91.4%
Low confidence 0 5 5 9 19 8.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Gossypium, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 6 0 8 0 15 6.8%
WCSP (in review) 54 147 5 1 0 207 93.2%