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Gossypium sturtianum (Sturt's desert rose)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Sturt's Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum) is a woody shrub, closely related to cultivated cotton, found in most mainland states of Australia and the Northern Territory. It is also known as the Darling River Rose, Cotton Rosebush and Australian Cotton.
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Infraspecies

Gossypium sturtianum var. nandewarense
Gossypium sturtianum var. sturtianum

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Structure [1]  Shrub

Emblem of

Northern Territory

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0