Ocimum carnosum (Spreng.) Link & Otto ex Benth.
First published in Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 11 (1832)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico, N. Venezuela, S. Bolivia to Brazil and N. Argentina. It is an annual or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Lumnitzera carnosa Spreng. in Syst. Veg. ed. 16. 4(2): 223 (1827)
- Ocimum selloi var. carnosum (Spreng.) Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 7: 622 (1907), nom. illeg.
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Ocimum atrovirens Bartl. in Index Seminum (GOET, Gottingensis) 1841: 5 (1841)
- Ocimum ebracteatum Pohl ex J.A.Schmidt in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 8: 72 (1858)
- Ocimum graveolens Larrañaga in Escritos D. A. Larrañaga 1: 411 (1922), nom. illeg.
- Ocimum montevideanum Larrañaga in Escritos D. A. Larrañaga 3: 58 (1924)
- Ocimum selloi Benth. in Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 6 (1832)
- Ocimum selloi var. angustifolium Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 7: 622 (1907)
- Ocimum selloi var. genuinum Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 7: 622 (1907), not validly publ.
- Ocimum selloi f. serratum Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 7: 622 (1907)
- Ocimum selloi f. subintegrifolium Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 7: 622 (1907)
- Ocimum selloi var. tweedieanum Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 7: 622 (1907)
- Ocimum tweedieanum Benth. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 12: 38 (1848)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Arbo, M.M. & al. (2018). Flora Argentina. Flora vascular de la República Argentina 20(1): 1-488. INTA, IMBIV & IBODA.
- Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (2012). Flora Mesoamericana 4(2): 1-533. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Harley, R.M. (2012). Checklist and key of genera and species of the Lamiaceae of the Brazilian Amazon. Rodriguésia; Revista do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal, Jardim Botânico e Estaçao Biologica do Itatiaya 63: 129-144.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Rodrigues de Moraes, P.L., De Smedt, S. & Hjertson, M. (2014). Notes on the Brazilian plants collected by Georg Wilhelm Freyreiss and published by Carl Peter Thunberg in Plantarum Brasiliensium. Harvard Papers in Botany 19: 123-132. [Cited as Ocimum flexuosum.]
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
- Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Nov 1, 2013 | Chagala [402], Mexico | K000938206 | No | ||
Sep 30, 2009 | Amith [1099], Mexico | K000248750 | No | ||
Jan 1, 2011 | Zanin [s.n.], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000735168 | Yes | |
Jun 19, 2007 | Manzatto [1713], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000479265 | Yes | |
Jan 24, 2007 | Zardini, E.M. [23407], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247860 | No | |
Jan 24, 2007 | Zardini, E.M. [23601], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247859 | No | |
Jan 24, 2007 | Zardini, E.M. [24266], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247858 | No | |
Jan 24, 2007 | Zardini, E.M. [2963], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247925 | No | |
Jan 1, 2007 | Nee [44790], Bolivia | Ocimum selloi | K000479663 | No | |
Dec 13, 2006 | Huaylla, H. et al. [1806], Bolivia | Ocimum selloi | K000247599 | No | |
Dec 13, 2006 | Serrano, M. [5152], Bolivia | Ocimum selloi | K000247600 | No | |
May 23, 2006 | Folli [3230], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000194504 | Yes | |
Mar 15, 2006 | Zardini, E.M. [33989], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000194294 | No | |
Mar 15, 2006 | Zardini, E.M. [34289], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000194295 | No | |
Mar 15, 2006 | Zardini, E.M. [34296], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000194296 | No | |
Mar 15, 2006 | Zardini, E.M. [34652], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000194297 | No | |
Mar 14, 2006 | Zardini, E.M. [33823], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000194291 | No | |
Feb 1, 2006 | Barbosa [13310], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000194137 | Yes | |
Feb 1, 2006 | Peccinim [3016], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000194138 | Yes | |
Feb 1, 2006 | Fugiwara [8071], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000194139 | Yes | |
Feb 1, 2006 | Prinzio [6817], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000194149 | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1993 | Harley [26031], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000247927 | No | |
Jan 1, 1993 | Zardini, E.M. [29462], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247931 | No | |
Jan 1, 1993 | Zardini, E.M. [29354], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247932 | No | |
Jan 1, 1992 | Zardini, E.M. [32541], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247928 | No | |
Jan 1, 1992 | Zardini, E.M. [32631], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247929 | No | |
Jan 1, 1992 | Zardini, E.M. [31172], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000247930 | No | |
Jan 1, 1928 | Regnell, A. [324], Minas Gerais | Ocimum selloi | K000485564 | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1927 | Sello [s.n.], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000485565 | Unknown type material | Yes |
Tweedie [s.n.], Uruguay | Ocimum selloi | K000485552 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
King, P. [s.n.], Uruguay | Ocimum selloi | K000485554 | Yes | ||
Tweedie [[503]], Uruguay | Ocimum selloi | K000485553 | Yes | ||
Hassler, E. [7039], Paraguay | Ocimum selloi | K000485566 | isotype | Yes | |
Sello [s.n.], Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000485567 | isotype | Yes | |
Brazil | Ocimum selloi | K000485568 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images