| Name | Gossypium herbaceum Linnaeus |
| Authorship | Linnaeus |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Gossypium Linnaeus |
| Contains | Gossypium herbaceum var. africanum (G. Watt) J. B. Hutchinson ex S. C. Harland |
| Citation | 1753 Sp. Pl. 2: 693 |
| Holdings | 3 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Gossypium herbaceum Linnaeus |
| Identification made in | [no date] (3) |