Trees & Plants

Basil

Ocimum tenuiflorum L.

In homesteads Aromatic plant grown for religious and medicinal purposes and for its essential oil. The plant is used in several forms such as a herbal tea, dried powder or fresh leaf. It is useful as a medicine in cardiopathy, leucoderma, asthma, bronchitis, catarrhal fever, otal

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uses: Aromatic plant grown for religious and medicinal purposes and for its essential oil. The plant is used in several forms such as a herbal tea, dried powder or fresh leaf. It is useful as a medicine in cardiopathy, leucoderma, asthma, bronchitis, catarrhal fever, otalgia, vomiting, lumbaggo, hiccough, ophthalmia, gastropathy in children, genito- urinary disorders, ringworm, hepatopathy, oil verminosis and skin diseases.
family: Lamiaceae
synonym: Ocimum inodorum Burm.f., Ocimum sanctum L.
description: Subshrubs; branchlets hirsute with reddish-purple hairs. Leaves 1.3- 3 × 0.6-2 cm, elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse at both ends, margin coarsely serrate, puberulous; petiole to 2 cm long, covered with reddish-purple hairs. Racemes to 11 cm as long, generally simple, occasionally branched It at base. Calyx purplish, ca. 3 mm long, campanulate; lobes 5, upper lip ovate, acute, lower lip hispid without. Corolla reddish- pink, to 4 mm long, tubular-campanulate; tube ca. 2 mm long, dotted with sessile oil glands; lobes of upper lip oblong-orbicular; lower lip ovate-oblong. Stamens 4; filaments villous at the base. Nutlets ca. 1.5 mm long, ellipsoid, dark brown.
native range: South Asia
distribution: Palaeotropics 3
english names: Basil · Sacred basil · Holy basil
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: In homesteads