CHR 499218 – Ocimum basilicum L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 499218
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
27 January 1995
Database record updated:
04 September 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Ocimum basilicum L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-08-13 (Verbatim: 13 Aug 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:
Palmerston Island, Home Motu
Verbatim locality:
Palmerston Island, Home Motu
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4526/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
13 Aug 1993
Start date:
1993-08-13
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Palmerston
Habitat:
By house in village. Adventive.
Notes:
Bushy subshrub 40-50 cm high. Leaves very aromatic (basil-scented), light green, thin. Corolla facing outwards, 11-12 mm long to apex of white lower lip; upper lip curving upwards, c. 6 x 7 mm, pale pink, 4-toothed. Filaments white; style pink, both lying parallel to and exserted from lower lip. Calyx flushed mauve on upper side. A number of adventive plants.
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