Gossypium anomalum

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]

Gossypium anomalum
In Angola
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
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]
List Cienfuegosia anomala (Wawra & Peyr.) Gilg Cienfuegosia pentaphylla K.Schum. Gossypium barbosanum L.Ll.Phillips & Clement Gossypium capitis-viridis Mauer Hibiscus anomalus (Wawra & Peyr.) Kuntze

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