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THE LECTOTYPIFICATION OF GOSSYPIUM TOMENTOSUM SEEM. AND THE NAME OF THE HAWAIIAN ENDEMIC GOSSYPIUM
Author(s) -
Wilbur Robert L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220154
Subject(s) - gossypium , gossypium hirsutum , biology , malvaceae , botany , gossypium barbadense , synonym (taxonomy) , genus
Summary It is again demonstrated that Gossypium sandvicense Parlatore is the correct name of the endemic Hawaiian Gossypium and that the lectotype of Gossypium tomentosum Seem, should be Seemann 28 (K), a specimen collected in Fiji and a synonym of Gossypium hirsutum L. s.l. The greater part of the original description of Gossypium tomentosum was derived from the introduced Fijian cotton and contradicts the characters possessed by the Hawaiian species.