Confusion....!! but I will definitely check the internode hair characters as provided in the key. your say is that its an hybrid.
regards On 5/24/11, Plant Diversity <a.cul...@reading.ac.uk> wrote: > The plant is probably O. africanum possibly backcrossed with O. > basilicum (see key from Taxonomic Revision of Tribe Ocimeae Dumort. > (Lamiaceae) in Continental South East Asia III. Ociminae Author(s): S. > Suddee, A. J. Paton, J. A. N. Parnell Source: Kew Bulletin, Vol. 60, > No. 1 (2005), pp. 3-75 > > Key to continental SE Asian species of Ocimum > 1. Teeth of lateral fruiting calyx lobes distinct, deltoid or > lanceolate; bract without bowl-like gland > developing > 2. Throat of fruiting calyx closed by the upcurved 2 median teeth of > anterior lip, anterior much > shorter than posterior; mostly shrubs or > undershrubs ........................ 1. 0. gratissimum > 2. Throat of fruiting calyx open, the 2 median teeth of anterior lip > as long as or longer than posterior; > mostly herbs with stems woody at base > 3. Calyx tube glabrous or thinly covered with minute glandular hairs > inside; nutlets unchanged > when wet ...................................................... 2. 0. > tenuiflorum > 3. Calyx tube with a ring of hairs at throat inside; nutlets producing > mucilage when wet > 4. Flower with pedicel nearly as long as calyx; appendage of posterior > stamens hairy .............. > ....................................................... 3. 0. > kilimandscharicum > 4. Flower with pedicel much shorter than calyx; appendage of posterior > stamens glabrous > 5. Fruiting calyx up to 5 mm long; corolla 4 - 5.5 mm long > 6. Fruiting calyx 2 - 3 mm long; stem internodes with short adpressed > or retrose hairs ......... > .... ....o......................................o.......... 4. 0. > americanum > 6. Fruiting calyx 4 - 5.5 mm long; stem internodes with long, > spreading and sometimes > retrorse hairs .......... ... ............... ..................... 5. > 0. africanum > 5. Fruiting calyx 6 - 8 mm long; corolla 7 - 8 mm > long ...... ............... 6. 0. basilicum > > Thanks to Alan Paton at Kew for this! > > On May 24, 7:51 am, amit chauhan <amitci...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanx Gurucharanji and Hari for the identification. But Hari I have >> some sweet smelling O. basilicum accessions having saunf like smell >> >> regards >> >> On 5/24/11, hari lal <taxo....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I go with Dr Gurcharan singh O. americanum >> > Ocimum basilicum having smell is bitter armatic with oily stem leaves >> > not lemon smell just like pudina smeel with bitter test. >> >> > On 5/24/11, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I would go with O. americanum based on shorter corolla, slightly longer >> >> than >> >> calyx and more hairy calyx >> >> >> -- >> >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> >> Retired Associate Professor >> >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> >>http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM, amit chauhan <amitci...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Dear all, >> >> >>> Sending photographs of Ocimum. confused over Ocimum basilicum and O. >> >>> americanum. The plants details as in the photographs and having lemon >> >>> scented smell. Growing in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, Plants ca. 50 cm >> >>> tall >> >> >>> regards >> >> >>> -- >> >>> Dr. Amit Chauhan >> >>> Junior Technical Assistant >> >>> Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Research Centre, >> >>> Pantnagar, PO Dairy Farm Nagla, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, >> >>> Uttarakhand 263149 >> >>> ph.05944 234445 >> >>> mob.+919412161087 >> >>> mail: amitci...@gmail.com >> >>> amitci...@rediffmail.com >> >>> amit.chau...@cimap.res.in >> >> > -- >> > HARI SHANKAR LAL >> > AT-SHIV KUTIR >> > PO-BARA BAZAR >> > DIST-HAZARIBAG >> > PIN-825301 >> > JHARKHAND,INDIA >> > MOBILE-9431530563 >> > email-taxo....@gmail.com >> >> -- >> Dr. Amit Chauhan >> Junior Technical Assistant >> Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Research Centre, >> Pantnagar, PO Dairy Farm Nagla, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, >> Uttarakhand 263149 >> ph.05944 234445 >> mob.+919412161087 >> mail: amitci...@gmail.com >> amitci...@rediffmail.com >> amit.chau...@cimap.res.in -- Dr. Amit Chauhan Junior Technical Assistant Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Research Centre, Pantnagar, PO Dairy Farm Nagla, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand 263149 ph.05944 234445 mob.+919412161087 mail: amitci...@gmail.com amitci...@rediffmail.com amit.chau...@cimap.res.in
