Plants → Magnoliophyta → Magnoliopsida → Malvales → Malvaceae Juss. → Gossypium L. → Gossypium australe F.Muell.

Gossypium australe F.Muell. Native Cotton
Fragm. 1:46 (1858)

Conservation Code: Not threatened
Naturalised Status: Native to Western Australia
Name Status: Current
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Photo of Gossypium australe F.Muell.

Brief Description
Grazyna Paczkowska, Thursday 19 September 1996

Shrub, 0.5-3 m high. Fl. blue-purple/pink, Apr to Oct. Red, often sandy soils.

Distribution

Beard’s Provinces: Eremaean Province, Northern Province.

IBRA Regions: Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami, Victoria Bonaparte.

IBRA Subregions: Cape Range, Chichester, Fitzroy Trough, Fortescue, Hamersley, Hart, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, McLarty, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Ord, Ord-Victoria Plains P1, Pentecost, Pindanland, Roebourne, Rudall, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami P1, Victoria Bonaparte P1, Wooramel.

IMCRA Regions: Canning.

Local Government Areas (LGAs): Ashburton, Broome, Carnarvon, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Karratha, Port Hedland, Wyndham-East Kimberley.