Gossypium herbaceum L. var. africanum (G. Watt) J. B. Hutch. ex S. C. Harland GRIN-Global

Taxon: Gossypium herbaceum L. var. africanum (G. Watt) J. B. Hutch. ex S. C. Harland

Summary

Genus:

Gossypium

Subgenus:

Gossypium

Section:

Gossypium

Subsection:

Gossypium

Family:

Malvaceae

Subfamily:

Malvoideae

Tribe:

Gossypieae

Nomen number:

17916

Place of publication:

Bibliogr. Genet. 9:115. 1932 (J. B. Hutch. & Ghose, Indian J. Agric. Sci. 7:250. 1937)

Verified:

08/10/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Gossypium herbaceum L. (2 active accession[s])
Gossypium herbaceum L. var. herbaceum (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym

Gossypium obtusifolium Roxb. ex G. Don var. africanum G. Watt

Homotypic Synonym(s)

Gossypium africanum (G. Watt) G. Watt

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Reference(s)

Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. 1993
Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. Conspectus florae angolensis. 1937-
Compton, R. H. The flora of Swaziland. 1976
Cotton Crop Germplasm Committee. Cotton germplasm status report and crop vulnerability status. 2005 18.
Cufodontis, G. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. 1953-1972
Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960-
Fryxell, P. A. 1976. A nomenclator of Gossypium. The botanical names of cotton. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1491:15.
Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe (Malvaceae, Tribe Gossypieae). The natural history of the cotton tribe. 1979 64.
Fryxell, P. A. 1992. A revised taxonomic interpretation of Gossypium L. (Malvaceae). Rheedea 2:147.
Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988
Khan, S. A. et al. 2000. Molecular phylogeny of Gossypium species by DNA fingerprinting. Theor. Appl. Genet. 101:931-938.
Kulkarni, V. N. et al. The worldwide gene pools of Gossypium arboreum L. and G. herbaceum L., and their improvement. Genetics and genomics of cotton. 2009 69-97.
Kulkarni, V. N. et al. The worldwide gene pools of Gossypium arboreum L. and G. herbaceum L., and their improvement. Genetics and genomics of cotton. 2009 69-97.
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Ross, J. The flora of Natal. 1972
Vollesen, K. 1987. The native species of Gossypium (Malvaceae) in Africa, Arabia and Pakistan. Kew Bull. 42:337-349.

Common names

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State
1	Native	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Mozambique
1	Native	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Zimbabwe
1	Native	Africa	Southern Africa	Botswana
1	Native	Africa	Southern Africa	Eswatini
1	Native	Africa	Southern Africa	Namibia
1	Native	Africa	Southern Africa	South Africa	KwaZulu-Natal
1	Native	Africa	Southern Africa	South Africa	Transvaal

Native
Africa

SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique, Zimbabwe
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Vertebrate poisons	mammals		Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=17916. Accessed 27 December 2024.