Taxon:
Gossypium herbaceum L. var. herbaceum
Summary
Verified:
08/11/1999
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe 168.
- Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | only cult. |
Cultivated
(only cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | fodder | for seed cakes | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |
Human food | oil/fat | as Gossypium herbaceum | Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications. |
Materials | fiber | | Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe 168. |