CHR 516805 – Ocimum gratissimum L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 516805
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
06 August 1998
Database record updated:
27 April 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Ocimum gratissimum L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1995-05-11 (Verbatim: 11 May 1995)
Preferred name:
Ocimum gratissimum L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Lamiales
Family:
Lamiaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Avarua
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-21.2009 -159.772
Verbatim locality:
Avarua
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4927/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
11 May 1995
Start date:
1995-05-11
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Rarotonga
Habitat:
Roadside scrub.
Notes:
Shrubs c. 1 m high, bush, very aromatic. Leaves very soft, pale beneath. Shoots and inflorescence branches brownish. Spikes erect. Calyx c. 5 mm long to apex of large ovate appendage c. 2 mm long. Corolla white or greenish-white (upper lip), c. 4 mm long to apex of straight lower lip, this rounded distally; upper lip c. 2 mm long, hooded. Stamens exserted. Very common.
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