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This species is accepted, and its native range is Mexico, N. Venezuela, S. Bolivia to Brazil and N. Argentina.
Ocimum carnosum

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

Ocimum carnosum (Spreng.) Link & Otto ex Benth. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Nov 1, 2013 Chagala [402], Mexico K000938206
Sep 30, 2009 Amith [1099], Mexico K000248750
Jan 1, 2011 Zanin [s.n.], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000735168
Jun 19, 2007 Manzatto [1713], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000479265
Jan 24, 2007 Zardini, E.M. [23407], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247860
Jan 24, 2007 Zardini, E.M. [23601], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247859
Jan 24, 2007 Zardini, E.M. [24266], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247858
Jan 24, 2007 Zardini, E.M. [2963], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247925
Jan 1, 2007 Nee [44790], Bolivia Ocimum selloi K000479663
Dec 13, 2006 Huaylla, H. et al. [1806], Bolivia Ocimum selloi K000247599
Dec 13, 2006 Serrano, M. [5152], Bolivia Ocimum selloi K000247600
May 23, 2006 Folli [3230], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000194504
Mar 15, 2006 Zardini, E.M. [33989], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000194294
Mar 15, 2006 Zardini, E.M. [34289], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000194295
Mar 15, 2006 Zardini, E.M. [34296], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000194296
Mar 15, 2006 Zardini, E.M. [34652], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000194297
Mar 14, 2006 Zardini, E.M. [33823], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000194291
Feb 1, 2006 Barbosa [13310], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000194137
Feb 1, 2006 Peccinim [3016], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000194138
Feb 1, 2006 Fugiwara [8071], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000194139
Feb 1, 2006 Prinzio [6817], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000194149
Jan 1, 1993 Harley [26031], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000247927
Jan 1, 1993 Zardini, E.M. [29462], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247931
Jan 1, 1993 Zardini, E.M. [29354], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247932
Jan 1, 1992 Zardini, E.M. [32541], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247928
Jan 1, 1992 Zardini, E.M. [32631], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247929
Jan 1, 1992 Zardini, E.M. [31172], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000247930
Jan 1, 1928 Regnell, A. [324], Minas Gerais Ocimum selloi K000485564
Jan 1, 1927 Sello [s.n.], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000485565 Unknown type material
Tweedie [s.n.], Uruguay Ocimum selloi K000485552 Unknown type material
King, P. [s.n.], Uruguay Ocimum selloi K000485554
Tweedie [[503]], Uruguay Ocimum selloi K000485553
Hassler, E. [7039], Paraguay Ocimum selloi K000485566 isotype
Sello [s.n.], Brazil Ocimum selloi K000485567 isotype
Brazil Ocimum selloi K000485568

First published in Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 11 (1832)

Accepted by

  • 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.

Not accepted by

  • 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.]

Literature

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.

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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