Gossypium

Accepted species 55 Documented here 13 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 55 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Gossypium hirsutum L. 190 documented
Gossypium thurberi Tod. 120 documented
Gossypium darwinii G.Watt 91 documented
Gossypium klotzschianum Andersson 45 documented
Gossypium tomentosum Nutt. ex Seem. 40 documented
Gossypium australe F.Muell. 18 documented
Gossypium herbaceum L. 15 documented
Gossypium harknessii Brandegee 12 documented
Gossypium aridum (Rose & Standl.) Skovsted 11 documented
Gossypium robinsonii F.Muell. 11 documented
Gossypium barbadense L. 6 documented
Gossypium sturtianum J.H.Willis 5 documented
Gossypium triphyllum (Harv.) Hochr. 3 documented
Gossypium anomalum Wawra & Peyr. 1 below the evidence gate
Gossypium anapoides J.M.Stewart, Craven, Brubaker & Wendel 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium arboreum L. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium areysianum Deflers 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium bickii Prokh. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium bricchettii (Ulbr.) Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium californicum Mauer 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium contextum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium costulatum Tod. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium cunninghamii Tod. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium dicladum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium ekmanianum Wittm. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium enthyle Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium exiguum Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium hypadenum O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium incanum (O.Schwartz) Hillc. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium irenaeum Lewton 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium laxum L.Ll.Phillips 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium lobatum Gentry 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium londonderriense Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium longicalyx J.B.Hutch. & B.J.S.Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium marchantii Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium morrilli O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium mustelinum Miers ex G.Watt 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium nelsonii Fryxell 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium nobile Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium patens O.F.Cook & J.W.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium pilosum Fryxell 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium populifolium Tod. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium pulchellum (C.A.Gardner) Fryxell 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium raimondii Ulbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium rotundifolium Fryxell, Craven & J.M.Stewart 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium schwendimanii Fryxell & S.D.Koch 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium somalense (Gürke) J.B.Hutch., Silow & S.G.Stephens 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium stephensii J.P.Gallagher, C.E.Grover & Wendel 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium stocksii Mast. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium timorense Prokh. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium trifurcatum Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium trilobum (Sessé & Moc. ex DC.) Skovst. 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium turneri Fryxell 0 below the evidence gate
Gossypium vollesenii Fryxell 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.