7366.000 Ocimum
BECIUM Lindl.
Description of the genus
Herbs or soft small shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, petiolate. Inflorescence a terminal spike-like raceme. Flowers in 6-flowered whorls, bracts much smaller than the leaves. Calyx 2-lipped, 5-toothed, tube short, upper tooth much larger than the rest, broadly ovate to subrotund, 2 lateral teeth small, subulate, 2 lower teeth fused, forming an oblong emarginate or 2-toothed lip. Corolla 2-lipped, mauve to whitish, upper lip 4-lobed with ± equal lobes, lower lip spreading, concave. Stamens 4, shortly exserted. Style exserted, 2-lobed.The definition of this genus is not clear to us after the merging with Becium. This description is therefore provisional Worldwide: 150 species in warm temperate and tropical regions, especially Africa Zimbabwe: 13 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| africanum Lour. | N,W,E,S | |
| americanum L. | N,W,S | Description, Image |
| americanum / africanum [Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| angustifolium Benth. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| centraliafricanum R.E. Fr. | N,C,E | Description |
| filamentosum Forssk. | N,E,S | Description, Image |
| fimbriatum Briq. var. fimbriatum | E | |
| gratissimum L. subsp. gratissimum var. gratissimum | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| labiatum (N.E. Br.) A.J. Paton | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| minimum L. | E | |
| minutiflorum (Sebald) A.J. Paton | C | |
| obovatum Benth. subsp. obovatum var. obovatum | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| obovatum Benth. subsp. obovatum var. galpinii (Gürke) A.J. Paton | E |
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