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Taxon:  Gossypium herbaceum L. var. herbaceum



Summary
Genus:
Gossypium
Subgenus:
Gossypium
Section:
Gossypium
Subsection:
Gossypium
Family:
Malvaceae
Subfamily:
Malvoideae
Tribe:
Gossypieae
Nomen number:
409919
Verified:
08/11/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Gossypium herbaceum L. (0 active accession[s])
Gossypium herbaceum L. var. africanum (G. Watt) J. B. Hutch. ex S. C. Harland (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
  1. Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe 168.
  2. Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
  3. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    only cult.
Cultivated (only cult.)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodderfor seed cakesMabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Human foodoil/fatas Gossypium herbaceumFacciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
Materialsfiber Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe 168.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=409919. Accessed 30 April 2025.