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Ocimum polystachyon

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Name

Identification
Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Ocimum dimidiatum Schumach. and Thonn. [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Ocimum polystachyon L. [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Moschosma polystachyum
  • Ocimum dimidiatum
  • Ocimum polystachyon
  • Basilicum polystachyon

Flora

Entry for BASILICUM polystachyon (L.) Moench [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
BASILICUM polystachyon (L.) Moench [family LABIATAE], (1802);
Ocimum polystachyon L. [family LABIATAE], (1771);. [type as above]
Moschosma polystachyon (L.) Benth. [family LABIATAE], (1830). Fig. 239A. [type as above]
Information
Annual herb, 0.3–1 m tall, slightly pubescent with glands and short hairs. Leaves long-petiolate; blade ovate to almost elliptic, up to 10–70 × 6–40 mm, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin crenate. Inflorescence lax, with many rather lax floral branches, sometimes arising even from the base of the plant; bracts minute. Fruiting calyx c. 3 mm long. Corolla white or pink, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Nutlets subspherical, c. 0.55 × 0.5 mm, producing mucilage when wet.
Range
C2; S1–3 widespread in tropical Africa, Asia and Australia.
Altitude range
40–170 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 25296; Beckett & White 1710; Suckert 2.

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