Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Gossypium

Malvaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malvales(ordo)
Malvaceae(fam.)
Gossypium(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

693

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

:

300

[secondary reference]

Hoffmannsegg, J.C. von (1824), Verzeichniss der Pflanzenkulturen in der Graflich Hoffmannseggischen Garten zu Dresden und Rammenau 1

:

135, 217

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

222

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sturtia R.Br.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

15

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sturtia R.Br.

legitimate

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Fugosia Juss.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

26

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sturtia R.Br.

legitimate

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Fugosia Juss.

legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum

:

280

[basionym]

basionym of:

Hibiscus sect. Gossypium (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

61

[secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Millspaugh, C.F. (1920), Bahama Flora

:

273

[secondary reference]

Type: Gossypium arboreum L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

382

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From gossypion, stated by Pliny to be the name of the African cotton-tree, G. arboreum, L., in Upper Egypt."

Roberty, G.E. (1952), Gossypiorum revisionis tentamen (suite et fin).

:

9-145

[secondary reference]

Fryxell, P.A. (1965), A revision of the Australian species of Gossypium with observations on the occurrence of Thespesia in Australia (Malvaceae).

Australian Journal of Botany

:

71-102

[secondary reference]

Borssum Waalkes, J. van (1966), Malesian Malvaceae revisited.

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119-131

[secondary reference]

Fryxell, P.A. (1969), A Classification of Gossypium L. (Malvaceae).

:

585-591

[secondary reference]

Fryxell, P.A. (1978), The natural history of the cotton tribe (Malvaceae, Tribe Gossypieae)

:

37-71

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Notoxylinon Lewton

legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

:

361

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

143

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Malvaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

210-211

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

320-321

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

209-210

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Malvaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

148

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

320-321

[secondary reference]

Bayer, C. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Malvaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

291

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Gossipium K.A.W.Williams

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Hibiscus sect. Gossypium (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gossypium subg. Eugossypium Tod.

nom. inval.

taxonomic synonym:

Gossypium sect. Eugossypium Tod.

nom. inval.

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Notoxylinon Lewton

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

369

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Gossipium K.A.W.Williams

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Hibiscus sect. Gossypium (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gossypium subg. Eugossypium Tod.

nom. inval.

taxonomic synonym:

Gossypium sect. Eugossypium Tod.

nom. inval.

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Cienfuegosia Cav.

legitimate

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Fugosia Juss.

legitimate

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Cienfugosia Giseke

orth. var.

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Notoxylinon Lewton

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised)

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