Ocimum basilicum - Sweet Basil - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Subphylum Angiospermae 2272 Class Magnoliopsida 1790 Order Lamiales 164 Family Lamiaceae 47 Subfamily Nepetoideae 9 Tribe Ocimeae 8 Subtribe Ociminae 3 Genus Ocimum 2

Ocimum basilicum

Ocimum tenuiflorum

Unsure

Ocimum basilicum L. Species

Sweet Basil

Indeterminate origin, herb species. Cryptogenic weed, cultivated.

Other common names

Basil en, Pokok Selasih ms, Luo Le zh.

Distribution

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna and Yemen.