PI 53905 GRIN-Global

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

Origin:

Collected – West Bengal, India

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

07 Jul 1921

PI Assigned:

1921

Inventory Volume:

68
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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

Origin:

Collected – West Bengal, India

Maintained:

Historic Record

Received by NPGS:

07 Jul 1921

PI Assigned:

1921

Source History

Collected

West Bengal, India

Collector(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

Narrative

A somewhat shrubby herbaceous plant fround throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon and distributed in the Malay Archipelago, Australia, western Asia, and Arabia; it is cultivated occasionally as a potherb by Europeans, for which purpose it is very useful. The leaves, seeds, and flowers are used in native medicine. (Watt; Dictionary of the Economic Products of India; Vol. 5, p. 444.)

Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

Genus:

Ocimum

Family:

Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae)

Subfamily:

Nepetoideae

Tribe:

Ocimeae

Subtribe:

Ociminae

Nomen number:

25491

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:597. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

05/19/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ocimum sanctum L.

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	brush-leaf-tea		1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	holy basil		1	Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948-. Flora malesiana.
English	sacred basil		1	Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948-. Flora malesiana.
India (Hindi)	tulsi	as Ocimum sanctum	2	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948-1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials.
Portuguese (Brazil)	manjericão-branco		2	Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Spanish	albahaca morada	as Ocimum sanctum	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Ocimum sanctum L.
Swedish	helig basilika		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

Annotations

The Taxonomic Name Of The Accession When It Was Received: 19 Mar 2004, from Ocimum sanctum L. to Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

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Details for: PI 53905, Ocimum tenuiflorum L.