Gossypium arboreum

Turner, Ian M., 2022, FROM ACACIA TO ZIZIPHUS: PLANT NAMES COMMEMORATING THE BOTANIST WILLIAM ROXBURGH, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (1911), pp. 1-102 : 51

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scientific name	Gossypium arboreum
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Gossypium arboreum View in CoL L., Sp. Pl. 2: 693 (1753). – Type: Anon. s.n. (lectotype LINN [ LINN-HL

874.3], designated by Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica 5: 148 [1926]).

Gossypium roxburghii Tod., Giorn. Reale Ist. Incoragg. Agric. View in CoL Sicilia, Ser. 3, 1: 45 (1863).

– Gossypium neglectum var. roxburghianum Tod., Relaz. Cult. Coton. 169 (1877–1878). – Type: [unpublished illustration] Icones Roxburghianae 1496 (lectotype CAL, designated by Fryxell , Techn. Bull. U.S. D.A. no. 1491: 65 [1976]).

Todaro based his Gossypium roxburghii on Roxburgh’s account of Dacca cotton. Fryxell selected Roxburgh’s drawing in CAL as lectotype of Todaro’s name. There are two drawings labelled 1496 in CAL. I take Fryxell’s typification to apply to number 54, which includes the annotation ‘var. Dacca cotton’. This drawing matches the one in K that has an original annotation of ‘ Dacca Cotton’.