Gossypium arboreum L.

Shrub or subshrub ; up to 2 m tall , most parts densely covered with minute stellate hairs . Stems usually puberulent to pubescent , irregularly dotted with black oil glands ; young branches purple pubescent with stellate and few simple hairs , glabrescent . Leaves alternate , 2–5 x 2–4 . 5 cm , simple , petiolate , ovate to orbicular in outline , 2–12 cm in diameter , palmately lobed or parted with 3–7 segments , frequently with an extra tooth in the sinuses , base cordate , lobes ovate to narrowly lanceolate , apex acute or acuminate , sometimes obtuse , margin entire , pedately 5–9-veined , nectaries usually inconspicious or absent ; petiole 1–14 cm long , punctate ; stipules 5–15 mm long , linear to falcate , caducous . Inflorescences solitary , axillary ; pedicel 10–60 mm long . Flowers yellow with a purplish basal spot ; calyx 7–12 mm long , glabrous , prominently punctate , truncate to distinctly 5-lobed ; petals usually yellow with a purplish basal spot , sometimes white or flushed purplish or with basal spot absent , 25–45 mm ... long , minutely punctate , ciliate on claw ; stamens numerous , forming a column 1 . 5–2 cm long , filaments 1 . 5–4 mm long , anthers 1-celled ; pistil with 3–5-celled ovary and one short style with clavate , 3–5-sulcate stigma . Fruit capsule , 1 . 5–2 . 5 cm in diameter , ovoid to elongate , usually 3-locular , usually beaked , glabrous , punctate , 5–8-seeded . Seeds 5–8 mm in diameter , ovoid to globular , with dense covering of long woolly white or rusty hairs . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .

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Near Threatened (NT) - Global Assessment

Not Common

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