CHR 466584 – Ocimum L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 466584
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
01 March 1995
Database record updated:
21 November 2002
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Ocimum
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Ocimum L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Lamiaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Packe Street, St Albans - Edgeware, Christchurch
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Canterbury, Christchurch, St. Albans, Packe St
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 18/90
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
14-MAR-1990
Start date:
1990-03-14
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated near garden wall.
Notes:
Strongly aromatic herb, basil-scented when leaf bruised, otherwise rather unpleasant when plant untouched. Corolla pink with paler lip, 6-6.5mm to apex of the somewhat recurved upper lip; 8-9mm to apex of obovate lower lip. Anthers orange. Plant from shop as Ocimum sanctum, "Sacred Basil".
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