Gossypium darwinii

Darwin's cotton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Tribe:	Gossypieae
Genus:	Gossypium
Species:	G. darwinii
Binomial name
Gossypium darwinii

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.

References

1. ^ 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, http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/85/9/1301 

• Genetic Study of Darwin's cotton

External links

• UC Botanical Garden Photo of Darwin's cotton