Ocimum basilicum: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)Ocimum basilicum L. is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Ocimum album L., Ocimum album Roxb., Ocimum anisatum Benth., Ocimum anisatum Hort. ex Benth., Ocimum barrelieri Roth, Ocimum basilicum var. album (L.) Benth., Ocimum basilicum var. densiflorum Benth., Ocimum basilicum var. difforme Benth., Ocimum basilicum var. glabratum Benth., Ocimum basilicum var. majus Benth., Ocimum basilicum var. purpurascens Benth., Ocimum basilicum var. thyrsiflorum (L.) Benth., Ocimum bullatum Lam., Ocimum caryophyllatum Roxb., Ocimum caryophyllatum Schweig. ex Schrank, Ocimum chevalieri Briq., Ocimum ciliare B. Heyne ex Hook.f., Ocimum ciliatum Hornem., Ocimum citriodorum Vis., Ocimum citrodorum Blanco, Ocimum cochleatum Desf., Ocimum dentatum Moench, Ocimum hispidum Lam., Ocimum integerrimum Willd., Ocimum lanceolatum Schumach. & Thonn., Ocimum lanceolatum Schumach., Ocimum laxum Vahl ex Benth., Ocimum majus Garsault, nom. inval., Ocimum majus Hort. ex Benth., Ocimum medium Mill., Ocimum minus Garsault, nom. inval., Ocimum nigrum Thouars ex Benth., Ocimum odorum Salisb., Ocimum scabrum Thunb., Ocimum scabrum Wight ex Hook.f., Ocimum simile N.E. Br., Ocimum thyrsiflorum L., Ocimum urticifolium Roth, Ocimum urticifolium Hort. ex Benth., Ocimum urticifolium Benth., Plectranthus barrelieri Spreng., Plectranthus barrelieri (Roth) Spreng..
References regarding Ocimum basilicum L. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Les Figures des Plantes et Animaux d'Usage en Medecine (1764)
· Mant. Pl. (1767)
· Gardeners Dictionary, ed. 8 (1768)
· Encycl. (Lamarck) (1785)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1794)
· Methodus (Moench) (1794)
· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Species Plantarum, ed. 4 (1800)
· Tabl. École Bot. (1804)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae Orientalis (1821)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1825)
· Beskr. Guin. Pl. (1827)
· Labiatarum Genera et Species (1832)
· Flora de Filipinas, ed. 2 (1845)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1848)
· Flora of the British India (1885)
· Flora Capensis, being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (Harvey) (1910)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1917)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1962)
· Taxon (1979)
· Bothalia (1983)
· Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica (1984)
· Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress Association (1984)
· Revue de Cytologie et de Biologie Végétales, le Botaniste (1984)
· Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1985)
· Journal of the Indian Botanical Society (1986)
· Acta Facultatis Rerum Naturalium Universitatis Comenianae, Botanica (1992)
· Kew Bulletin (1996)
· Thaiszia (1997)
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