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|accepted_name=Gossypianthus lanuginosus
|accepted_authority=(Poiret) Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=13(2): 337. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Woolly cottonflower
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Paronychia lanuginosa
|authority=Poiret
|publication_title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl., suppl.
|publication_place=4: 303. 1816
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Guilleminea lanuginosa
|authority=(Poiret) Moquin-Tandon ex Bentham & Hooker f.
}}
|hierarchy=Amaranthaceae;Gossypianthus;Gossypianthus lanuginosus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amaranthaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gossypianthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gossypianthus lanuginosus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 436
|treatment_page=page 438
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>1–7 dm diam. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to decumbent, 0.4–1 mm diam., sparsely pilose to strongly woolly-villous with whitish, straight to wavy-crinkled hairs. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; basal leaves with petiole 0.5–2 cm, blade linear or linear-oblanceolate to spatulate, 1.6–9.7 × 0.2–1(–1.7) cm; cauline leaves with winged petiole 1–5 mm, blade ovate, elliptic-ovate elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong, or oblong-ovate, (0.1–)0.5–1.8(–3.3) × (0.1–)0.2–0.7 (–1.3) cm, glabrous or sparsely to densely pilose to strigose. <b>Glomerules</b> white, globose to cylindric, 1–10 × 5–8 mm. <b>Flowers</b> sessile; tepals green, oblong-lanceolate, outer tepals 2.5–4 mm, inner tepals 2.5–3.6 mm, chartaceous, apex acuminate, woolly-villous on exposed surfaces. <b>Utricles</b> included within tepals, 1.4–2 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 0.8–1.2 × 0.6–0.9 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Basal leaf blades oblong-oblanceolate, oblanceolate, or spatulate; cauline leaf blades ovate to oblong-ovate or obovate, pilose to sericeous abaxially, pilose to glabrate adaxially
|[[Gossypianthus lanuginosus var. lanuginos|Gossypianthus lanuginosus var. lanuginos]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Basal leaf blades linear to linear-oblanceolate; cauline leaf blades oblong-elliptic to oblong, glabrous throughout or with scattered, marginal hairs near base
|[[Gossypianthus lanuginosus var. tenuiflor|Gossypianthus lanuginosus var. tenuiflor]]
|}
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name=Gossypianthus lanuginosus
|author=
|authority=(Poiret) Moquin-Tandon in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Guilleminea lanuginosa
|basionyms=Paronychia lanuginosa
|family=Amaranthaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1849
|special status=
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|genus=Gossypianthus
|species=Gossypianthus lanuginosus
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