Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium.

Gossypium is the cotton genus.

Consequently, the genus Gossypium has long attracted the attention of scientists.

The origin of the genus Gossypium is dated to around 5-10 million years ago.

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Thespesia is a genus of 18 flowering shrubs and trees in the Hibiscus family, Malvaceae, although within the family they are more closely related to cotton plants ( Gossypium ).

The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone.

They also commented that these analyses confirm the continuity of the Cannabis gene pool throughout the studied accessions, and provide further confirmation that the genus comprises a single species, although theirs was not a systematic study per se.

In addition, the new hypothesis assigns C. megalodon to the genus Carcharocles, which also comprises the other megatoothed sharks ; Otodus obliquus is the ancient representative of the extinct Carcharocles lineage.

The genus comprises about half of the Pantherinae subfamily, the big cats.

The family of middle clouds typically comprises one stratocumuliform and one stratiform genus.

The one extant family, Manidae, has one genus, Manis, which comprises eight species.

The lovebird genus comprises nine species of which five are monotypic and four are divided into subspecies.

The genus Hordeum comprises many species ( see much longer list at WikiSpecies entry ):

It comprises six living species in two genera, the type of which is the genus Nautilus.

Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, comprises 10 – 16 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries.

The genus Alcedo comprises a number of small, exclusively fish-eating kingfishers.

The sacoglossans ( sea slugs ) form an interesting anomaly in that their radula comprises a single row ; they feed by sucking on cell contents, rather than rasping at tissue, and most species feed on a single genus or species of alga.

This family comprises two subfamilies: Pseudochelidoninae ( the river martins of the genus Pseudochelidon ) and Hirundininae ( all other swallows and martins ).

The family Oriolidae comprises the figbirds in the genus Sphecotheres, and the Old World orioles in the genus Oriolus.

This genus is named after Pleione, mother of the Pleiades ( in Greek mythology ) and comprises about 20 species.

Early phylogenetic analyses supported the hypothesis that the genus comprises only a few species with considerable phenotypic variation.

The binomial name is of Greek origin ; Phylloscopus comes from phyllon / φυλλον, " leaf ", and skopeo / σκοπεω, " to look at " or " to see ", since this genus comprises species that spend much of their time feeding in trees, while collybita is a corruption of kollubistes, " money changer ", the song being likened to the jingling of coins.

The Cassythoideae comprises a single genus, Cassytha, and is defined by its herbaceous, parasitic habit.

The genus name Rhinoceros, which also includes the Indian rhinoceros, is derived from the ancient Greek words ῥίς ( rhis ), which means " nose ", and κέρας ( ceras ), which means " horn "; sondaicus is derived from sunda, the biogeographical region that comprises the islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and surrounding smaller islands.

The Cynthia group of colourful butterflies, commonly called painted ladies, comprises a subgenus of the genus Vanessa in the Family Nymphalidae.

The genus comprises about 280 species ( Hughes ), with major centers of diversity in South and Western North America ( Subgen.

The family of Balaenids, therefore, comprises the right whales ( genus Eubalaena ), and in a genus all to its own, the very closely related bowhead whale ( genus Balaena ).

In the genus Ensatinas, she has been observed to coil around them and press her throat area against them, effectively massaging them with a mucous secretion.

At least superficially, plants of the genus Pereskia resemble other trees and shrubs that grow around them.

The earliest documented members of the genus Homo are Homo habilis which evolved around.

From these early species the Australopithecines arose around diverged into robust ( also called Paranthropus ) and gracile branches, one of which ( possibly A. garhi ) probably went on to become ancestors of the genus Homo.

The earliest members of the genus Homo are Homo habilis which evolved around.

The Australopithecus genus evolved in eastern Africa around 4 million years ago before spreading throughout the continent and eventually becoming extinct 2 million years ago.

From here, the genus Giraffa evolved and, around 7 mya, entered Africa.

The genus Actinidia contains around 60 species.

Fossil Olea pollen has been found in Macedonia, Greece, and other places around Mediterranean, indicating that this genus is an original element of the Mediterranean flora.

Polyandry also occurs in some primates such as marmosets, mammal groups, the marsupial genus ' Antechinus and bandicoots, around 1 % of all bird species, such as jacanas, insects such as honeybees, and fish such as pipefish.

This last estimate may conflict with the fossil record depending on whether the genus Kayentachelys, whose fossils date to around, is the earliest known member of Cryptodira or lies outside the least inclusive clade containing Cryptodira and Pleurodira.

The earliest known hippopotamus fossils, belonging to the genus Kenyapotamus in Africa, date to around.

Banksia is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae.

Hotter, drier regions around the edges of the genus ' range tend to have fewer species with larger distributions.

When the original name is changed, e. g. the species is moved to a different genus, both Codes use parentheses around the original authority ; the ICN also requires the person who made the change to be given.

Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, predominantly motile enterobacteria with diameters around 0. 7 to 1. 5 µm, lengths from 2 to 5 µm, and flagella that grade in all directions ( i. e., peritrichous ).

The tail reaches long, around the same length as the tiger's tail and relatively the longest tail in the Panthera genus ( though snow leopards and the much smaller marbled cats are relatively longer tailed ).

With around 1, 500 species, Begonia is the sixth largest angiosperm genus.

Fossils of true geese are hard to assign to genus ; all that can be said is that their fossil record, particularly in North America, is dense and comprehensively documents many different species of true geese that have been around since about 10 million years ago in the Miocene.

Triceratops ( ) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago ( Mya ) in what is now North America.

From the evidence gathered by palaeontologists and archaeologists, it appears that the Australopithecus genus evolved in eastern Africa around 4 million years ago before spreading throughout the continent and eventually becoming extinct 2 million years ago.

It is widely held by archaeologists and palaeontologists that the australopiths played a significant part in human evolution, and it was one of the australopith species that eventually evolved into the Homo genus in Africa around 2 million years ago, which contained within it species like Homo habilis, H. ergaster and eventually the modern human species, H. sapiens sapiens.