Selected Species
- Subgenus Gossypium
- Gossypium arboreum – tree cotton (India and Pakistan)
- Gossypium herbaceum – Levant cotton (southern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula)
- Subgenus Houzingenia
- Gossypium raimondii – one of the putative progenitor species of tetraploid cotton, alongside G. arboreum
- Gossypium thurberi – Arizona wild cotton (Arizona and northern Mexico)
- Subgenus Karpas
- Gossypium barbadense – Creole cotton (tropical South America)
- Gossypium darwinii – Darwin's cotton (Galápagos Islands)
- Gossypium hirsutum – upland cotton (Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and southern Florida)
- Gossypium mustelinum
- Gossypium tomentosum – Maʻo or Hawaiian cotton (Hawaii)
- Subgenus Sturtia
- Gossypium australe (northwestern Australia)
- Gossypium sturtianum – Sturt's desert rose (Australia)
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