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Gossypium arboreum
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Family:
MALVACEAE
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Citation: Gossypium arboreum L., Sp. Pl. 693. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 347. 1874; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 387. 1993; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 27. 1996; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 408. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 117. 2009.
Gossypium perenne Blanco, Fl. Filip. 537. 1837.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kattuparuthi, Muripparutthi, Chemparuthi
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Tree cotton
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Description:
Annual or perennial shrubs, 1-3 m high; young branches pubescent with stellate and a few simple hairs, gland-dotted, glabrescent, purple. Leaves alternate, ovate to orbicular, cordate at base, palmately 3-5 or 7 lobed or parted with an extratooth in sinus, 5-10 x 7-12 cm; lobes lanceolate, gland-dotted above, sparsely stellate hairy beneath with 1-3 nectaries on main nerves; petioles 3-8 cm long; stipules linear, often falcate, 0.5 to 1 cm long, sparsely stellate-hairy. Flower axillary, solitary; pedicel ca 2 cm long. Epicalyx lobes ovate, cordate at base, entire or toothed, acute at apex, 1.5-2.5 x 1-2 cm, accrescent. Calyx cupular, ca 4 mm long, somewhat 5-dentate at apex and glabrous. Corolla ca 7 mm across, yellow, sometimes brown. Petals obovate, ca 4 x 3 cm, sparsely pubescent at margin. Staminal column ca 1.5 cm long, glabrous, antheriferous towards apex. Ovary ovoid or 3-gonous, ca 4 mm long; styles ca 2 mm long; stigmas linear. Capsules more or less globose, ca 3 cm, with 3-4 mm long beak, 3 or 4 loculed; seeds 5-17 per locule, ca 7 mm across, with floss and fuzz; floss white and rusty.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-February
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District(s):
Alappuzha, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Paleotropics
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Angadikkal
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