Linnaeus, C. (1763), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 2: 975 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in America."

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 258 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 112 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 46 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 322 [secondary reference]

common name: Cotton [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 210 [secondary reference]

common name: Upland Cotton [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 121 [secondary reference]

common name: Commercial Cotton [n/a]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 322 [secondary reference]

common name: Cotton [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Gossypium hirsutum L. var. hirsutum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gossypium punctatum Schumach. & Thonn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gossypium taitense Parl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gossypium hirsutum var. punctatum (Schumach. & Thonn.) Roberty legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gossypium hirsutum var. punctatum (Schumach. & Thonn.) J.B.Hutch. isonym taxonomic synonym: Gossypium hirsutum var. taitense (Parl.) Roberty legitimate

• APC Comment: Gossypium hirsutum var. taitense is recognised as a distinct taxon in NT.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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