Gossypium darwinii
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| Darwin's cotton | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Tribe: | Gossypieae |
| Genus: | Gossypium |
| Species: | G. darwinii |
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| Gossypium darwinii |
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Darwin's cotton (Gossypium darwinii) is a species of cotton plant which is found only on the Galapagos Islands. Genetic studies indicate that it is most closely related to the native American species Gossypium barbadense,[1] thus it is surmised that a seed arrived from South America on the wind, in the droppings of a bird or associated with debris by sea.
[edit] References
- ^ Small, R. L.; Ryburn, J. A.; Cronn, R. C.; Seelanan, T.; Wendel, J. F. (September 1, 1998), "The Tortoise and the Hare: Choosing between Noncoding Plastome and Nuclear Adh Sequences for Phylogeny Reconstruction in a Recently Diverged Plant Group", American Journal of Botany (Botanical Society of America) 85 (9): 1301, doi:10.2307/2446640, ISSN 00029122, JSTOR 2446640, PMID 21685016, http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/85/9/1301
