Taxon:
Ocimum tenuiflorum L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:597. 1753
Verified:
05/19/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
- http://www.skud.info
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- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. 1980- Note: = Geniosporum tenuiflorum (L.) Merr.
- Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
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- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
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Common names
English
brush-leaf-tea – holy basil – sacred basil – India (Hindi)
tulsi – Portuguese (Brazil)
manjericão-branco – Spanish
albahaca morada – Swedish
helig basilika –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere in tropics |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Sri Lanka
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere in tropics)
Economic Uses
Food additives
Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_33.html,) – Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004, as O. sanctum) – Weed
(fide F Males) –