Basilicum

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Basilicum

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Description

Erect, annual or perennial herbs, branched. Flowers very small. Stamens 4, declinate;

Distribution

Africa present, Asia present, Asia-Tropical, N. Australia present present, tropics of the Old World present
About 6-7 spp. in the tropics of the Old World, in Africa, Asia, Malesia, and N. Australia; in Malesia 1 sp., in N. Australia an endemic species closely allied to it.

Taxonomy

MAHESHWARI has proposed to conserve Moschosma (), but this has not been accepted.

Citation

J. K. MORTON 1962 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 238
MOENCH 1963 – In: Hutch. & Dalz., Fl. W. Trop. Afr., ed. 2, 2: 454
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 38
O.K. 1891 – In: Rev. Gen. Pl.: 512
REICHB. 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 48
BTH. 1832: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 24
BRIQ. 1897 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: 368