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|accepted_name=Gossypium
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 693. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 309. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Cotton
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erioxylum
|authority=Rose & Standley
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ingenhouzia de
|authority=Candolle
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Selera
|authority=A. Gray
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Thurberia
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Gossypium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gossypium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek gossypion, cotton, or Arabic goz or gothn, a silky or soft substance
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 188, 215, 218
|treatment_page=page 250
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees], hairy or glabrate, not viscid. <b>Stems</b> erect [or procumbent]. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules persistent, subulate or linear to falcate; blade ovate, unlobed, shallowly lobed, or deeply parted, base subcordate or cordate, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or stellate-hairy, often with abaxial foliar nectaries. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers or flowers sympodially arranged; involucellar bractlets deciduous or persistent, 3, distinct. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes sometimes unribbed, ovate or triangular, glabrous or hairy; corolla cream or yellow [rose], sometimes fading rose, with or without dark spot at center; staminal column included; ovary 3–5-carpellate; style unbranched; stigmas decurrent-clavate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, erect, not inflated, ovoid or subglobose to oblong, leathery, usually glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> [2–]24, densely comose to glabrate or glabrous. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=s;sc United States;w Mexico;South America;Asia (Middle East);Africa;Australia;introduced nearly worldwide.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fryxell1992a
|text=Fryxell, P. A. 1992. A revised taxonomic interpretation of Gossypium L. (Malvaceae). Rheedea 2: 108–165.
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Involucellar bractlets broadly cordate-ovate, margins laciniate; petals 2–5 cm; capsules 2–4 cm; seeds comose (cottony); leaf blades shallowly lobed, lobes broadly ovate.
|[[Gossypium hirsutum|Gossypium hirsutum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Involucellar bractlets ligulate, margins entire or apically toothed; petals 1.5–4.5 cm; capsules 1–1.5 cm; seeds glabrous, glabrate, or strigose (not cottony); leaf blades unlobed or lobes narrowly lanceolate
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Involucellar bractlets deciduous before anthesis, margins entire; petals 2.5–4.5 cm, yellow; seeds 8 mm, strigose (hairs brownish, tightly appressed); leaf blades unlobed; petioles terete.
|[[Gossypium armourianum|Gossypium armourianum]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Involucellar bractlets persistent, margins entire or apically toothed; petals 1.5–2.5 cm, cream; seeds 3–4 mm, glabrous or glabrate; leaf blades 3–5-lobed, lobes narrowly lanceolate (4+ times as long as wide); petioles quadrangular.
|[[Gossypium thurberi|Gossypium thurberi]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Gossypium
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Erioxylum;Ingenhouzia de;Selera;Thurberia
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=s;sc United States;w Mexico;South America;Asia (Middle East);Africa;Australia;introduced nearly worldwide.
|reference=fryxell1992a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_453.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Gossypium
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