Shrub/ Small tree
Gossypium arboreum L.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Gossypium arboreum var. cemuum (Todaro) J.B. Hutchinson & Ghose |
synonym | Gossypium cernuum Todaro |
synonym | Gossypium figarei Tod. |
synonym | Gossypium gracile Salisb. |
synonym | Gossypium rubicundum Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. |
synonym | Hibiscus purpurascens Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Diagnostic Keys
Shrubs, 2-3 m. Leaves ovate, base cordate
Sanjib Barua
Attributions | Sanjib Barua |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Habit: Erect shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering & Fruiting: August-February
Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference.
Attributions | Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference. |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
Undershrubs, 1-2 m;. Leaves 3-lobed. Flowers axillary, solitary, sub-sessile. Epicalyx segments free. Sepals 1.5-3.8cm, red, fleshy.
Sanjib Barua
Attributions | Sanjib Barua |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Shrubs, ca. 1.5-3 m tall; young branches purple pubescent with stellate and few simple hairs, glabrescent. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules liner to lanceolate, often flacate; petioles ca. 1.5-18 cm long, puberulent and villous; lamina ca. 3-13 x 3.5-12 cm, palmately lobed to palmatifid, ovate or orbicular or oblong segments, lobes subrotundate to triangular, cordate at base, acute at apex, crenate to dentate, secondary nerves 5-7 pairs. Flowers solitary, axillary or in terminal racemes by reduction of upper leaves; Epicalyx segments large ovate, subentire or toothed, cordate at base, acute at apex; calyx ca. 5 mm long, cupular, somewhat 5-dentate; corolla ca. 3-4 cm long, pale yellow with or without purple centre, and sometimes entirely purple; staminal tube ca. 1.5-2 cm long, antheriferous. Capsules ca. 1.5-3 cm in diam., depressed globose, pubescent, enclosed by calyx; mericarps 20-40, ca. 4 mm across, longitudinally sulcate. Seeds 5-8 per cell, ca. 5-8 mm in diam., free, ovoid, with dense covering of long woolly white or rusty hairs.
Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference.
Attributions | Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference. |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Cultivated
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Maharashtra: Ahemdnagar, Kolhapur, Pune, Sindhudurg
Karnataka: Mysore
Kerala: Alapuzha, Kozhikode
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Global Distribution
India : Throughout, Tropical & Subtropical Regions
Indian Distribution
Throughout Assam
Endemic Distribution
Throughout Assam
Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference.
Attributions | Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference. |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Common
Sanjib Barua
Attributions | Sanjib Barua |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Protection Legal Status
It is found growing wild in the tropical forest
Sanjib Barua
Attributions | Sanjib Barua |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Traditional chinese medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1066
Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1066 |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Main source of cotton, oil-cake and oil, etc. from the seeds of the plant.
Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference.
Attributions | Ayyappan. N & V. Kokilavani, French Institute of Pondicherry, Compiled from various sources listed in the reference. |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1066
- Sharma, B.D., Sanjappa, M. 1993. Flora of India: Vol. III: 387. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
- Singh, N.P., Chauhan, A.S., Mondal, M.S. 2000. Flora of Manipur: Vol. I: 166. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1066
- Sharma, B.D., Sanjappa, M. 1993. Flora of India: Vol. III: 387. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta
- Singh, N.P., Chauhan, A.S., Mondal, M.S. 2000. Flora of Manipur: Vol. I: 166. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Malvales Juss. |
Family | Malvaceae Juss. |
Genus | Gossypium |
Species | Gossypium arboreum L. |
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