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Ocimum menthifolium

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Name

Identification
Ocimum menthifolium Hochst. ex Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bräuchler, C., 2013
Related name
  • Ocimum menthifolium
  • Ocimum americanum
  • Ocimum forskolei
  • Ocimum gratissimum
  • Ocimum basilicum
  • Ocimum menthaefolium
  • Ocimum forskolii
  • Ocimum longistylum

Flora

Entry for OCIMUM forskaolii Benth. [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by O. Ryding (Aeollanthus, Basilicum, Clinopodium, Endostemon, Fuerstia, Hoslundia, Lavandula, Leucas, Micromeria, Nepeta, Ocimum, Orthosiphon, Otostegia, Plectranthus, Renschia, Salvia, Scutellaria, Stachys, Teucrium, Tinnea) and M. Thulin (Clerodendrum, Premna, Rotheca, Vitex) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OCIMUM forskaolii Benth. [family LABIATAE], (1832), as “ forskolei ”.
OCIMUM stirbeyi Schweinf. & Volkens [family LABIATAE], (1897);
Becium stirbeyi (Schweinf. & Volkens) Cuf. [family LABIATAE], (1963). [type as above]
OCIMUM menthifolium Hochst. ex Benth. [family LABIATAE], (1848).
OCIMUM staminosum Baker [family LABIATAE], (1895);. type: N1, “Golis” Range, Cole s.n. (K holo.).
OCIMUM kelleri Briq. [family LABIATAE], (1903).
OCIMUM piliferum Briq. [family LABIATAE], (1903).
OCIMUM falcatum Gand. [family LABIATAE], (1922);. type: S3, “Giumbo”, Fiori 4 (FT holo.).
Information
Perennial herb or subshrub, erect, 0.15–1 m tall, with simple hairs only; stems with mostly short retrorse or appressed hairs. Leaves petiolate; blade narrowly ovate, or less often elliptic, narrowly obovate or linear, up to 15–70 × 2–40 mm, apex acute, base cuneate to attenuate, margin entire or shallowly serrate. Inflorescences ± lax; bracts persistent or deciduous. Fruiting calyx 6–8 mm long, open, hairy in the throat; upper lobe suborbicular, 3–4.5 × 3–4 mm, rounded at the base; lateral lobes deltoid, cuspidate; lower lobes not connate, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 6–11 mm long, white with purple or pink markings. Anterior stamens 3–6 mm longer than the lower lip of the corolla. Nutlets 1.3–2 × 0.9–1.2 mm, almost smooth, grey-black, producing mucilage when wet.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
80–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen & Heemstra 6195; Thulin & al. 7657; Elmi 488.
Distribution (external)
Egypt
Sudan
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Djibouti
Arabian peninsula
Notes
The record of O. hadiense Forssk. from Somalia in Cuf. Enum.: 846 (1963) was based on material that belongs here. The type of O. hadiense is a Plectranthus (see under P. hadiensis). Forms with linear or narrowly obovate leaves (known from N1, C2 and S1) have often been treated as O. stirbeyi.

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