Ocimum gratissimum L., 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part O), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 696-717 : 696

Ocimum gratissimum Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 1197. 1753.

"Habitat in India." RCN: 4333.

Neotype (Cramer in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 3: 112. 1981): Herb. Linn. No. 749.2 ( LINN) .

Current name: Ocimum gratissimum L. ( Lamiaceae ).

Note: Although Herb. Linn. 749.2 ( LINN) is not original material for this name, the absence of any other original material means that Cramer’s treatment of it as “type” is to be treated as a correctable error and accepted as a neotypification under Art. 9.8. This pre-dates its explicit treatment as a neotype by Paton (in Kew Bull. 47: 411. 1992).