Biology:Gossypium anomalum

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Short description: Species of plant in the family Malvaceae

Gossypium anomalum
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In Angola
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Gossypium
Species:
G. anomalum
Binomial name
Gossypium anomalum
Wawra & Peyr.
Synonyms[2]

Gossypium anomalum is a species of wild cotton in the family Malvaceae, native to drier parts of Africa.[2] A crop wild relative of cultivated cotton, its genome has been sequenced.[3]

Subtaxa

The following subspecies are accepted:[2]

  • 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. Rowe, J.; Holubec, V. (2019). "Gossypium anomalum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T71774166A71774188. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T71774166A71774188.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/71774166/71774188. Retrieved 29 December 2023. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Gossypium anomalum Wawra & Peyr." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/559661-1. 
  3. 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. PMID 34549783. 

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