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The genus Gossypium is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Species in Gossypium

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Gossypium anomalum Wawra & Peyr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium arboreum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium areysianum Deflers	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium aridum (Rose & Standl.) Skovst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium australe F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium barbadense L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium benadirense Mattei	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium bickii (F.M.Bailey) Prokh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium bricchettii (Ulbr.) Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium californicum Mauer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium contextum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium costulatum Tod.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium cunninghamii Tod.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium darwinii G.Watt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium dicladum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium ekmanianum Wittm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium enthyle Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium evertum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium exiguum Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium harknessii Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium herbaceum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium hirsutum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium hypadenum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium incanum (O.Schwartz) Hillc.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium irenaeum Lewton	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium klotzschianum Andersson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium laxum L.Ll.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium lobatum Gentry	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium londonderriense Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium longicalyx J.B.Hutch. & B.J.S.Lee	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium marchantii Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium morrilli O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium mustelinum Miers ex G.Watt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium nelsonii Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium nobile Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium patens O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium pilosum Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium populifolium (Benth.) F.Muell. ex Tod.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium pulchellum (C.A.Gardner) Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium raimondii Ulbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium robinsonii F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium rotundifolium Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium schwendimanii Fryxell & S.D.Koch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B.Hutch., Silow & S.G.Stephens	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium stocksii Mast.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium sturtianum (R.Br.) J.H.Willis	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium thespesioides (R. Br. ex Benth.) F. Muell.	Accepted		TRO
Gossypium timorense Prokh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium tridens O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium trifurcatum Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium trilobum (Sessé & Moç. ex DC.) Skovst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium triphyllum (Haw.) Hochr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium turneri Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gossypium vollesenii Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 222 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Gossypium. Of these 55 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 151 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Gossypium. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 222 species names for the genus Gossypium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	24.8%
◕	Synonym	153	68.9%
◕	Unplaced	5	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	9	4.1%

All names

The status of the 373 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Gossypium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	62	16.6%
◕	Synonym	297	79.6%
◕	Unplaced	5	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	9	2.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 222 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Gossypium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	55	148	0	0	203	91.4%
	Low confidence	0	5	5	9	19	8.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Gossypium, are as follows: