Ocimum L.

Native to:

Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Aruba, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Christmas I., Cook Is., East Aegean Is., Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hawaii, Illinois, Inner Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Line Is., Marquesas, Mongolia, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New York, Niue, Primorye, Romania, Samoa, Society Is., South Australia, South European Russi, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Ukraine, Wallis-Futuna Is., Xinjiang

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Paton, A.J., Bramley, G., Ryding, O., Polhill, R., Harvey, Y., Iwarsson, M., Willis, F., Phillipson, P., Balkwill, K., Lukhoba, C., Otiend, D & Harley (2009). Lamiaceae (Labiatae). Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-430.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• —F.T.A. 5: 334.

Flora Zambesiaca

• L. Gen. Pl., ed.5: 259 (1754).
• L., Sp. Pl.: 597 (1753);
• Paton in Kew Bull. 47: 403–435 (1992).
• Paton in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 7: 260 (2004).
• Paton, Harley & Harley in Holm & Hiltunen, Ocimum: 1–38 (1999).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by O. Ryding [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
• Paton & al. in Holm & Hiltunen, Medicinal and aromatic plants - industrial profiles: 1–38 (1999).
• Paton in Kew Bull. 47: 403–435 (1992)
• Paton in Kew Bull. 50: 199–242 (1995)
• Sebald in Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. Ser. A 419: 1–74 (1988)
• Sebald in Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. Ser. A 437: 1–63 (1989)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 259 (1754)
• Holm & Hiltunen, Ocimum: 1–38 (1999)
• K.B. 49: 403–435 (1992)
• K.B. 60: 24–31(2005)
• Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 7: 260 (2004)
• L., Sp. Pl.: 597 (1753)
• Sp. Pl.: 597 (1753)

Lamiaceae Key Genus Fact Sheets

• Becium Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28: t. 42 (1842).
• Erythrochlamys Gürke, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 222 (1894).
• Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 259 (1754)
• Harley RM, Atkins S, Budantsev AL, Cantino PD, Conn BJ, Grayer R, Harley MM, de Kok RPJ, Krestovskaja T, Morales R, Paton AJ, Ryding O, and Upson T. 2004. Labiatae, in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (K. Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VI: 167-275. Sp
• Hyperaspis Briq., Bull. Herb. Boissier, II, 3: 975 (1903).
• Nautochilus Bremek., Ann. Transvaal Mus. 15: 252 (1933).
• Ocimum L., Sp. Pl. 2: 597 (1753)
• Orthosiphon sect. Serrati Ashby (1938).
• Orthosiphon subgenus Nautochilus (Brem.) L.E.Codd (1964).
• Paton, Harley & Harley in Holm & Hiltunen (eds.). Ocimum. Medicinal and Aromatic plants - industrial profiles: 1-38 (1999), Harwood Academic, Amsterdam, rev.