Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Ocimum americanum

Lamiaceae Martinov

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Lamiaceae(fam.)
Ocimum(gen.)
americanum(sp.)

Ocimum americanum L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (19 February 1755), Centuria I. Plantarum

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15

[tax. nov.]

Type: Habitat in America, Miller s.n.

Barker, R.M. (1993), Lamiaceae.

Flora of Australia

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371

[secondary reference]

Bown, D. (2002), New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses Edn. Revised

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290

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Ocymum americanum L.

orth. var.

APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised for ChI by R.M.Barker, Fl. Australia 50: 371 (1993).
APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Conn, B.J. (11 August 2014), Ocimum L. (Lamiaceae) in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

:

172-173, Fig. 2 (map)

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ocimum americanum L. var. americanum

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (November 2015), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2014 census to 2015 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2015

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23

[secondary reference]

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015.

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5

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Ocymum americanum L.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Ocimum americanum L. var. americanum

legitimate

misapplication: Ocimum gratissimum L. subsp. gratissimum legitimate by

Conn, B.J. (11 August 2014), Ocimum L. (Lamiaceae) in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Telopea

17

: 176-177, Fig. 5 (map)

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)