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Ocimum grandiflorum

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Identification
Becium grandiflorum (Lam.) Pic.Serm. [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Paton, A., Becium grandiflorum (Lam.) Pic.Serm. [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Sebald, O., Becium unrecorded unrecorded [family LABIATAE ] Ocimum grandiflorum Lam. [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Becium grandiflorum
  • Ocimum grandiflorum
  • Becium unrecorded
  • Ocimum filamentosum
  • Ocimum abyssinicum

Flora

Entry for Ocimum filamentosum Forsk. [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
Ocimum filamentosum Forsk. [family LABIATAE], Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 36. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 177; Yatke in Linnæa, xxxvii. 314; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 357.
Ocimum grandiflorum L'Hérit. [family LABIATAE], Stirp. 89 t. 43.
Bechium bicolor Lindl. [family ], in Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 15.
Information
A much-branched erect low shrub, with densely pubescent branches. Leaves nearly sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute, finely serrated, pubescent, 1 1/2–2 in. long. Racemes few, at first dense, finally lax in the lower half, 4–6 in. long; rhachis pubescent; pedicels not very short; bracts deciduous. Calyx finally 1/3 in. long; tube campanulate; upper lobe orbicular, as long as the tube; two lower teeth with large cusps, as long as the upper. Corolla white, 1/2 in. long; tube as long as the calyx; lips shorter than the tube. Stamens twice as long as the corolla; two upper filaments with a villous tooth near the base.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land environs of Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 770! Bogos; Atirba, Steudner, 1424!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; at the foot of Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 131! near Adowa, Schimper, 1849! and without precise locality, Bruce, Petit! Parkyns! Schimper, 20A! 20B!
Distribution (external)
Arabia

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