Cultivated
Aromatic annual or short-lived pernnial or subshrub ; up to 1 m tall . Stems erect , branched , woody at base ; indumentum of patent hairs . Leaves simple , green or purple , petiolate ; blade broadly elliptical , 1 . 5–3 . 3 × 1 . 1–2 cm , serrate , apex obtuse , base cuneate , with an indumentum of short , appressed hairs ; petiole 7–15 mm long . Inflorescences or dense ; bracts ovate 2 - 3 x 2 - 4 mm , apex acute , acuminate or cuspidate , base cuneate , sometimes subsessile , margin ciliate ; pedicels 2 . 5 - 4 mm long in fruit , slender , pubescent , nearly as long as calyx . Flowers purplish-red ; calyx 1(–3 in fruit) mm long ; throat open and glabrous ; corolla pink or white , 3 mm long ; tube ± parallel-sided ; stamens with posterior pair having a small tuft of hairs at base . Fruit nutlets , ± 1 mm long , brown , ovoid-oblong , smooth , producing small amounts of mucilage when wet , with numerous seeds . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Geniosporum tenuiflorum (L.) Merr.
Lumnitzera tenuiflora (L.) Spreng.
Moschosma tenuiflorum (L.) Heynh.
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Holy Basil
Hot Basil
Tulasi
Tulsi
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
