Gossypium arboreum L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 529-556 : 529

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Gossypium arboreum Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 693. 1753.

"Habitat in Indiae arenosis." RCN: 5075.

Lectotype (Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica 5: 148. 1926): Herb. Linn. No. 874.3 ( LINN) .

Generitype of Gossypium Linnaeus.

Current name: Gossypium arboreum L. View in CoL ( Malvaceae ).

Note: Watt (Wild Cult. Cotton Pl. World: 84, pl. 7. 1907) discussed some of the elements involved and, although he concluded that Plukenet’s description and plate “… must be accepted as manifesting the type of the species botanically", he also referred (pl. 7) to the LINN specimen as “type”. Watt therefore failed to make an effective type choice.