Gossypium anomalum

Gossypium anomalum is a species of wild cotton in the family Malvaceae, native to drier parts of Africa.[1] A crop wild relative of cultivated cotton, its genome has been sequenced.[2]

Gossypium anomalum
In Angola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Gossypium
Species:
G. anomalum
Binomial name
Gossypium anomalum
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Cienfuegosia anomala (Wawra & Peyr.) Gilg
    • Cienfuegosia pentaphylla K.Schum.
    • Gossypium barbosanum L.Ll.Phillips & Clement
    • Gossypium capitis-viridis Mauer
    • Hibiscus anomalus (Wawra & Peyr.) Kuntze

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are accepted:[1]

  • Gossypium anomalum subsp. anomalum – Cape Verde, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia
  • Gossypium anomalum subsp. senarense (Fenzl ex Wawra & Peyr.) Vollesen – Angola, Namibia

References
  1. "Gossypium anomalum Wawra & Peyr". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  2. Grover, Corrinne E.; Yuan, Daojun; Arick, Mark A.; Miller, Emma R.; Hu, Guanjing; Peterson, Daniel G.; Wendel, Jonathan F.; Udall, Joshua A. (2021). "The Gossypium anomalum genome as a resource for cotton improvement and evolutionary analysis of hybrid incompatibility". G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 11 (11). doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkab319. PMC 8527517. PMID 34549783.


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