Species: 39~40.
Geography: pantropical, aride, subtropical.
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Gossypium arboreum L. – (Tree cotton - Baumwolle), tetraploid cotton, - India, Pakistan.
syn.: Pavonia cauliflora
- Gossypium barbadense L., (American Pima, Creole cotton, Egyptian cotton, Sea island cotton), - tropical South America.
- Gossypium herbaceum L., (Levant cotton), - southern Africa, Arabian Peninsula.
- Gossypium hirsutum L., (Upland cotton), - Central America, Mexico, Caribbean, southern Florida.
non-commercials:
- Gossypium australe F.Muell, - endemic to north-western Australia.
- Gossypium darwinii, (Darwin's cotton), - Galapagos Islands.
- Gossypium sturtianum J.H. Willis, (Sturt's Desert Rose), - Australia.
- Gossypium thurberi Tod., (Arizona wild cotton), - Arizona, northern Mexico.
- Gossypium tomentosum Nutt. ex Seem, (Ma‘o or Hawaiian cotton), - endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
- Gossypium raimondii, (putative progenitor species of tetraploid cotton).
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