Gossypium darwinii

{{short description|Species of flowering plant in the mallow family Malvaceae}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Darwin's cotton

| image = Darwin's-cotton-flower.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| genus = Gossypium

| species = darwinii

| authority = G.Watt

}}

Gossypium darwinii, or Darwin's cotton, 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,{{citation | doi = 10.2307/2446640 | journal = American Journal of Botany | issn = 0002-9122 | date = September 1, 1998 | volume = 85 | issue = 9 | title = The Tortoise and the Hare: Choosing between Noncoding Plastome and Nuclear Adh Sequences for Phylogeny Reconstruction in a Recently Diverged Plant Group | last = Small | first = R. L. | last2 = Ryburn | first2 = J. A. | last3 = Cronn | first3 = R. C. | last4 = Seelanan | first4 = T. | last5 = Wendel | first5 = J. F. | pages = 1301–15 | jstor = 2446640 | pmid=21685016| doi-access = free }} 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.