Taxon: Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

Common names:

• brush-leaf-tea   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• holy basil   (Source: F Males ) – English
  
• sacred basil   (Source: F Males ) – English
  
• tulsi   (Source: Wealth India RM 7:87 [as O. sanctum]) – India (Hindi)
  
• manjericão-branco   (Source: Pl Names ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• albahaca morada   (Source: Dict Rehm [as O. sanctum]) – Spanish
  
• helig basilika   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide F Males; Dict Econ Pl, as O. sanctum)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004, as O. sanctum)
  
• Weed   (fide F Males)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines

• naturalized elsewhere in tropics

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. [= Geniosporum tenuiflorum (L.) Merr.].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Girija, T. & Tabish. Flowers of India (on-line resource).
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kala, C. P. et al. 2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India. Biodivers. & Conservation 13:459. [= O. sanctum L.].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Paton, A. & E. Putievsky. 1996. Taxonomic problems and cytotaxonomic relationships between and within varieties of Ocimum basilicum and related species (Labiatae). Kew Bull. 51:510. [mentions].
• Paton, A. 1992. A synopsis of Ocimum L. (Labiatae) in Africa. Kew Bull. 47:432.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= O. sanctum].
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ocimum tenuiflorum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ocimum tenuiflorum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ocimum tenuiflorum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ocimum sanctum L.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other web resources for Ocimum tenuiflorum L.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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