Gossypium anomalum

{{Short description|Species of plant in the family Malvaceae}}

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|image=Gossypium anomalum-1687 - Flickr - Ragnhild & Neil Crawford.jpg

|image_caption=In Angola

|status = NT

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author= Rowe, J. |author2= Holubec, V. |date=2019 |title= Gossypium anomalum |volume=2019 |page= e.T71774166A71774188 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T71774166A71774188.en |access-date=29 December 2023}}

|genus=Gossypium

|species=anomalum

|authority=Wawra & Peyr.

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|synonyms={{Collapsible list|

• Cienfuegosia anomala {{small|(Wawra & Peyr.) Gilg}}
• Cienfuegosia pentaphylla {{small|K.Schum.}}
• Gossypium barbosanum {{small|L.Ll.Phillips & Clement}}
• Gossypium capitis-viridis {{small|Mauer}}
• Hibiscus anomalus {{small|(Wawra & Peyr.) Kuntze}}

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Gossypium anomalum is a species of wild cotton in the family Malvaceae, native to drier parts of Africa.{{cite POWO |id=559661-1 |title=Gossypium anomalum Wawra & Peyr. |access-date=18 September 2022 }} A crop wild relative of cultivated cotton, its genome has been sequenced.{{cite journal |title=The Gossypium anomalum genome as a resource for cotton improvement and evolutionary analysis of hybrid incompatibility |year=2021 |last1=Grover |first1=Corrinne E. |last2=Yuan |first2=Daojun |last3=Arick |first3=Mark A. |last4=Miller |first4=Emma R. |last5=Hu |first5=Guanjing |last6=Peterson |first6=Daniel G. |last7=Wendel |first7=Jonathan F. |last8=Udall |first8=Joshua A. |journal=G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics |volume=11 |issue=11 |doi=10.1093/g3journal/jkab319 |pmid=34549783 |pmc=8527517 }}