- Family:
- Bixaceae Kunth
Cochlospermum Kunth

[FTEA]
Cochlospermaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1975
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees, shrubs or rhizomatous herbs or subshrubs
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals unequal
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Filaments
- Filaments slender, equal or ± unequal
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule obovoid or ellipsoid, 3–5-valved, ± hairy or glabrous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds cochleate-reniform, covered with long woolly hairs; embryo curved.
Native to:
Angola, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Myanmar, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Territory, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Queensland, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Suriname, Texas, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Bahamas, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Jawa, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Puerto Rico, Society Is., Sri Lanka, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is.
Cochlospermum Kunth appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1992 | Brooks, R.R. [TMEX 438], Brazil | K000973156 | Yes | ||
Heringer, E.P. [7312], Brazil | K000973152 | Yes | |||
Brooks, R.R. [TMEX 479], Brazil | K000973155 | Yes | |||
Coradin, L. [6581], Brazil | K000973154 | Yes | |||
Coradin, L. [5729], Brazil | K000973153 | Yes |
First published in Malvac., Büttner., Tiliac.: 6 (1822)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 1: 112.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- G.F.P. 2: 233 (1967)
- Keating in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 59: 282–296 (1973), nom. conserv.
- Malv.: 6 (1822)
- van Steenis in Flora Malesiana, ser. 1, 4: 61 (1949)
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