CHR 498913 – Ocimum basilicum L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498913
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
23 January 1995
Database record updated:
25 March 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Ocimum basilicum L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-07-14 (Verbatim: 14 Jul 1993)
Preferred name:
Ocimum basilicum L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Lamiaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Cook Islands, Penrhyn, Omoka Village
Verbatim locality:
Omoka Village.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4228/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
14 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-14
Land District:
Penrhyn
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Waste place, near building, in pebbly rubble, semi-shade.
Notes:
Bushy herbs 70-80 cm high, dense habit, very aromatic. Leaves membranous, medium green. Calyx green. Corolla white, bilabiate; 10 mm to apex of lower lip; 8 mm to apex of upturned upper lip with 4 ± oblong lobes, rounded at apices; lower lip ± elliptic with an erose margin. Stamens and style lying parallel to and just above lower lip; filaments white; style mauve. Locally common adventive in Omoka Village.
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