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Taxon:  Gossypium sturtianum J. H. Willis



Summary
Genus:
Gossypium
Subgenus:
Sturtia
Section:
Sturtia
Family:
Malvaceae
Subfamily:
Malvoideae
Tribe:
Gossypieae
Nomen number:
17944
Place of publication:
Vict. Naturalist 64:9. 1947
Comment:
nom. nov. for G. sturtii F. Muell.
Verified:
08/09/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
4 (4  active, 1  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Gossypium sturtii F. Muell.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cienfuegosia gossypioides (R. Br.) Hochr.
Sturtia gossypioides R. Br.
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Reference(s)
  1. Australian Systematic Botany Society. Flora of central Australia. 1981
  2. Beasley, J. O. 1942. Meiotic chromosome behavior in species, species hybrids, haploids, and induced polyploids of Gossypium. Genetics 27:25-54.
  3. Beasley, J. O. 1942. Meiotic chromosome behavior in species, species hybrids, haploids, and induced polyploids of Gossypium. Genetics 27:25-54.
  4. Brown, A. H. D. & C. L. Brubaker. 2000. Genetics and the conservation and use of Australian wild relatives of crops. Austral. J. Bot. 48:301.
  5. Brown, A. H. D. & C. L. Brubaker. 2000. Genetics and the conservation and use of Australian wild relatives of crops. Austral. J. Bot. 48:301.
  6. Brubaker, C. L. et al. 1999. Production of fertile hybrid germplasm with diploid Australian Gossypium species for cotton improvement. Euphytica 108:199-213.
  7. Brubaker, C. L. et al. 1999. Production of fertile hybrid germplasm with diploid Australian Gossypium species for cotton improvement. Euphytica 108:199-213.
  8. Campbell, B. T. et al. 2010. Status of the global cotton germplasm resources. Crop Sci. (Madison) 50:1161-1179.
  9. Fryxell, P. A. 1965. A revision of the Australian species of Gossypium with observations on the occurrence of Thespesia in Australia (Malvaceae). Austral. J. Bot. 13:80.
  10. Fryxell, P. A. 1976. A nomenclator of Gossypium. The botanical names of cotton. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1491:71.
  11. Fryxell, P. A. 1979. The natural history of the cotton tribe. 1979 48-50.
  12. Fryxell, P. A. 1992. A revised taxonomic interpretation of Gossypium L. (Malvaceae). Rheedea 2:123.
  13. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  14. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  15. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
  16. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  17. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  18. Valicek, P. 1978. Cotton et Fibres tropicales. 33:375-379.
  19. Wendel, J. F. & V. A. Albert. 1992. Phylogenetics of the cotton genus (Gossypium): character state weighted parsimony analysis of chloroplast-DNA restriction site data and its systematic and biogeographic implications. Syst. Bot. 17:115-143.
  20. Wendel, J. F. & V. A. Albert. 1992. Phylogenetics of the cotton genus (Gossypium): character state weighted parsimony analysis of chloroplast-DNA restriction site data and its systematic and biogeographic implications. Syst. Bot. 17:115-143.
  21. Wendel, J. F. et al. 2009. Evolution and natural history of the cotton genus. Genetics and genomics of cotton. 2009 3-22.
  22. Wendel, J. F. et al. 2009. Evolution and natural history of the cotton genus. Genetics and genomics of cotton. 2009 3-22.
Common names
English
Sturt's desert-rose –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Wales 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaSouth Australia 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
2Cultivated     
Native
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory]
Cultivated ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=17944. Accessed 19 July 2025.


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