Details for: PI 32008, Ocimum gratissimum L.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Ocimum gratissimum L.

Origin:

Collected – Nigeria

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

20 Oct 1911

PI Assigned:

1911

Inventory Volume:

29
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Ocimum gratissimum L.

Origin:

Collected – Nigeria

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

20 Oct 1911

PI Assigned:

1911

Source History

Collected

Nigeria

Collector(s):

Johnson, W.H., Agricultural Department - Southern Nigeria

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

West African mosquito plant; known locally to possess valuable qualities as an insectifuge. Foliage usually hung in dwelling houses in the green state to keep away mosquitoes, or dried plant is burned for same purpose. Distribution: herbaceous perennial found along western coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola.

Ocimum gratissimum L.

Genus:

Ocimum

Family:

Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae)

Subfamily:

Nepetoideae

Tribe:

Ocimeae

Subtribe:

Ociminae

Nomen number:

25483

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1197. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

06/08/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Ocimum gratissimum L. subsp. gratissimum (0 active accession[s])
Ocimum gratissimum L. subsp. gratissimum var. gratissimum (4 active accession[s])
Ocimum gratissimum L. subsp. gratissimum var. macrophyllum Briq. (1 active accession[s])
Ocimum gratissimum L. subsp. iringense Ayobangira ex A. J. Paton (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	African basil	1	McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
English	clove basil	1	Girija, T. & Tabish. Flowers of India (on-line resource).
English	East Indian basil	1	Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:140-142.
English	Russian basil	1	Lawrence, B. M. 1992. Chemical components of Labiatae oils and their exploitation. In: Harley, R. M. & T. Reynolds, eds., Advances in labiate science 400.
English	shrubby basil	1	Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:140-142.
English	tree basil	1	Girija, T. & Tabish. Flowers of India (on-line resource).
French	menthe gabonaise	2	Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:140-142.
India (Hindi)	ram tulsi	2	Girija, T. & Tabish. Flowers of India (on-line resource).
Portuguese	alfavacão	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	alfavaca-de-caboclo	2	Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Spanish	albahaca de limón	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	nejlikbasilika	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

Nomenclature Name Change: 21 Nov 1996, from Ocimum viridiflorum Roth to Ocimum gratissimum L.