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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Ocimum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Ocimum

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Lamianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Lamiales Bromhead pub. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 2: 210. Apr 1838.       Subordo  Lamiineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 464. 15 Nov 1895.       Familia  Lamiaceae Lindl. pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 275. Jul 1836. common name: Labiatae       Subfamilia  Ocimoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 572. Apr-Dec 1834.       Tribus  Ocimeae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 22. 1829.       Subtribus  Ociminae Benth. & Hook.f. pub. Gen. Pl. 2: 1162, 1163. 1-16 Mai 1876.       Genus  Ocimum L. pub. (1753) common name: basil

Named members of the Genus Ocimum

1	Species  americanum L. syn. Ocimum basilicum
2	Species  basilicum L. common name: "Magic" Thai basil, Siam queen, Thai sweet basil
3	Species  campechianum P. Mill. common name: least basil
4	Species  canum Sims common name: hoary basil
5	Species  gratissimum L. common name: African basil
6	Species  kilimandscharicum Guerke common name: hoary basil
7	Species  micranthum Willd. syn. Ocimum campechianum
8	Species  salinum Molina syn. Frankenia salina
9	Species  sanctum L. syn. Ocimum tenuiflorum common name: holy basil, tulsi  (Hindi)
10	Species  tenuiflorum L. common name: holy basil
11	Species  viride Willd. syn. Ocimum gratissimum

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.