Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Ocimum tenuiflorum
Lamiaceae Martinov
Ocimum tenuiflorum L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 597 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Malabaria."
Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1116 [secondary reference]
Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2: 210 [secondary reference]
Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3: 230 [secondary reference]
Conn, B.J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 805-806, Fig. 247C [secondary reference]
common name: Holy Basil [n/a] common name: Sacred Basil [n/a]
Conn, B.J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 805, Fig. 247C [secondary reference]
common name: Holy Basil [n/a] common name: Sacred Basil [n/a]
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 275 [secondary reference]
Bown, D. (2002), New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses Edn. Revised: 292 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Ocimum sanctum L. legitimate common name: Sacred Basil [n/a] common name: Holy Basil [n/a]
Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]
Bean, A.R. (26 February 2007), A new system for determining which plant species are indigenous in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 20(1): 28, 30, Fig. 32 (map) [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Ocimum sanctum L. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Ocymum sanctum L. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Ocimum sanctum L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ocimum caryophyllinum F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ocimum anisodorum F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ocimum sanctum var. angustifolium Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ocimum tenuiflorum var. anisodorum (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate
  • APC Comment: Ocimum tenuiflorum var. anisodorum is recognised as a distinct taxon in NT.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT, Qld
Conn, B.J. (11 August 2014), Ocimum L. (Lamiaceae) in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Telopea 17: 177-178, Fig. 6 (map) [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Ocimum sanctum L. legitimate
  • Text: "In Australia, it is only known with certainty, from the northern Torres Strait islands..."
Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015. Nuytsia 27: 13 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "Excluded taxon. This taxon does not occur in WA."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Ocymum sanctum L. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Ocimum sanctum L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ocimum santum B.J.Conn orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: Qld