Details for: PI 2011, Ocimum gratissimum L.

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Ocimum gratissimum L.

Origin:

Collected – France

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

13 Feb 1899

PI Assigned:

1899

Inventory Volume:

5
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Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Ocimum gratissimum L.

Origin:

Collected – France

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

13 Feb 1899

PI Assigned:

1899

Source History

Collected

France

Collector(s):

Swingle, W.T., USDA - Bureau of Plant Industry

PRE February 1899.
France

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

Tree Basil. Grown in hot countries. Annual with upright stem, branching from the base and forming a pyramidal bush 20-25 inches high, and 12-16 inches through. Leaves oblong; flowers lilac. Requires a long season.

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)

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