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Ocimum huillense

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Name

Identification
Ocimum huillense Hiern [family LAMIACEAE ] Becium obovatum (Gürke) N.E.Br. [family LAMIACEAE ] Becium obovatum (E.Mey. ex Benth.) N.E.Br. [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by Sebald,O., Becium grandiflorum (E.Mey. ex Benth.) Sebald [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ocimum huillense
  • Becium grandiflorum
  • Becium obovatum

Flora

Entry for Ocimum huillense Hiern [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 huillense Hiern [family LABIATAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 851.
Information
A suffruticose herb, with stems 15 in. long, ascending from a decumbent base, clothed with short white hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, narrowly elliptical, 3 in. long, 3/4 in. broad, subacute, cuneate at the base, repand or remotely denticulate, sparingly clothed with short whitish hairs. Inflorescence terminal, 4 in. long; whorls 6-flowered, lower distant. Calyx campanulate, 1/4 in. long; upper tooth ovate; lower teeth short, subulate. Corolla 5/8 in. long; tube rather longer than the calyx. Upper stamens with filaments toothed near the base.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea district of Huilla, Welwitsch, 5488.

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