Biology:Gossypium darwinii
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Short description: Species of flowering plant in the mallow family Malvaceae
Darwin's cotton | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Genus: | Gossypium |
Species: | G. darwinii
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Binomial name | |
Gossypium darwinii G.Watt
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Gossypium darwinii, or Darwin's cotton, is a species of cotton plant which is found only on the Galapagos Islands. Genetic studies indicate that it is most closely related to the native American species Gossypium barbadense,[1] thus it is surmised that a seed arrived from South America on the wind, in the droppings of a bird or associated with debris by sea.
References
- ↑ Small, R. L.; Ryburn, J. A.; Cronn, R. C.; Seelanan, T.; Wendel, J. F. (September 1, 1998), "The Tortoise and the Hare: Choosing between Noncoding Plastome and Nuclear Adh Sequences for Phylogeny Reconstruction in a Recently Diverged Plant Group", American Journal of Botany 85 (9): 1301–15, doi:10.2307/2446640, ISSN 0002-9122, PMID 21685016
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q11009692 entry
![]() | Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium darwinii.
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