Ocimum campechianum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Ocimum
- Species
- Ocimum campechianum
- Scientific Name
- Ocimum campechianum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ocimum campechianum
Ocimum campechianum is a plant species in the family Lamiaceae, widespread across Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and Florida.
Leaves of Ocimum campechianum are eaten in Brazil's Amazon jungle. Similar to basil, it has a pungent flavor and contains essential oils which have been used ethnomedicinally. In Amazonia, the aromatic leaves are used as an admixture in ayahuasca brews. The plant is known as albahaca in Mexico and called xkakaltun in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where it is considered a honey plant and is used as an abortifacient. It is referred to in Brazil as alfavaca and has also been referred to as albahaca del monte, Amazonian basil, wild sweet basil, wild mosquito plant, least basil, Peruvian basil, spice basil, alfavaca-do-campo, manjericao and estoraque.
...Ocimum campechianum in languages:
- Chinese
- 亞馬遜羅勒
- English
- wild sweet basil
- Portuguese
- Alfavaca
- Portuguese
- Favaquinha
- Portuguese
- Alfavaquinha
- Portuguese
- Alfavaca-do-mato
- Swedish
- peruansk basilika
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ocimum albostellatum
- Ocimum americanum
- Ocimum amicorum
- Ocimum angustifolium
- Ocimum basilicum
- Ocimum burchellianum
- Ocimum campechianum
- Ocimum canescens
- Ocimum carnosum
- Ocimum caryophyllinum
- Ocimum centraliafricanum
- Ocimum circinatum
- Ocimum coddii
- Ocimum cufodontii
- Ocimum dambicola
- Ocimum decumbens
- Ocimum dhofarense
- Ocimum dolomiticola
- Ocimum ellenbeckii
- Ocimum empetroides
- Ocimum ericoides
- Ocimum filamentosum
- Ocimum fimbriatum
- Ocimum fischeri
- Ocimum formosum
- Ocimum forskoelei
- Ocimum fruticosum
- Ocimum grandiflorum
- Ocimum gratissimum
- Ocimum hirsutissimum
- Ocimum irvinei
- Ocimum jamesii
- Ocimum kenyense
- Ocimum kilimandscharicum
- Ocimum labiatum
- Ocimum lamiifolium
- Ocimum masaiense
- Ocimum mearnsii
- Ocimum metallorum
- Ocimum minimum
- Ocimum minutiflorum
- Ocimum mitwabense
- Ocimum monocotyloides
- Ocimum motjaneanum
- Ocimum natalense
- Ocimum nudicaule
- Ocimum nummularia
- Ocimum obovatum
- Ocimum ovatum
- Ocimum pseudoserratum
- Ocimum pyramidatum
- Ocimum reclinatum
- Ocimum sebrabergensis
- Ocimum serpyllifolium
- Ocimum serratum
- Ocimum spectabile
- Ocimum spicatum
- Ocimum tenuiflorum
- Ocimum transamazonicum
- Ocimum tubiforme
- Ocimum urundense
- Ocimum vandenbrandei
- Ocimum vanderystii
- Ocimum verticillifolium
- Ocimum viphyense
- Ocimum waterbergense
- Ocimum × africanum































































































































































