Gossypium anomalum anomalum
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Full name: | Gossypium anomalum Wawra ex Wawra & Peyr. subsp. anomalum |
| Location: | Farm Urikos (2416AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Green cotton, African cotton, Pink wild cotton |
| Synonym(s): | Hibiscus anomalus (Wawra ex Wawra & Peyr.) Kuntze Cienfuegosia anomala (Wawra ex Wawra & Peyr.) Gürke Gossypium anomalum Wawra ex Wawra & Peyr. *Gossypium microcarpum Welw. ex Gürke Cienfuegosia pentaphylla K. Schum. (1889) |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | A shrub 5–10 ft. high with rough branches. Leaves stalked, downy on both surfaces, cordate with a single gland on the under surface, the lower leaves palmately 5-lobed, the upper ones 3-lobed; lobes roundish or slightly acute. Flowers opposite the leaves. Bracts of the epicalyx entire, linear-lanceolate, twice the length of the calyx, which latter is cup-shaped, 5-lobed; lobes acuminate. Petals reddish. Capsule ovoid, less than an inch in length, 3-valved; valves tuberculated, woody, acuminate. Seeds 3 or 4 in each cell of the capsule, covered with brownish wool adherent to the seed. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 29 Mar 2019 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | EOS 7D |
| Lens aperture: | f/9.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/1000 s |
| ISO speed: | 1000 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
