Plant Details

Accepted name:: Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum (G.Watt) Vollesen [Malvaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Gossypium herbaceum L.
Infraspecies:: Gossypium herbaceum subsp. herbaceum

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
!oq	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
cotton plant	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
katoenbossie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
katoenplant	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ko'o	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
koq'o	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kotini	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
letseta	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
miseha	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
osinduduandiba	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ricinda	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tree cotton	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
ugampokwe	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umgawuma	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wild cotton	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wilde baumwolle	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wildekatoen	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
wildkatoen	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Gossypium obtusifolium var. africanum G.Watt Wild Cult. Cotton: 153 (1907).
Gossypium transvaalense G.Watt Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1926: 207 (1926).
Gossypium africanum (G.Watt) G.Watt Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1926: 205 (1926).
Gossypium herbaceum var. africanum (G.Watt) J.B.Hutch. ex S.C.Harland Bibliogr. Genet. 9: 115 (1932).
Gossypium obtusifolium f. wattii Roberty Candollea 7: 316 (1937), not validly publ.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Gossypium herbaceum L. africanum (Watt) Vollesen	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Gossypium herbaceum L. subsp. africanum (Watt) Vollesen	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Gossypium herbaceum subsp. africanum (Watt) Vollesen	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
Gossypium obtusifolium Roxb.ex G.Don africanum Watt	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Gossypium transvaalense Watt	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)

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