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Ocimum gratissimum

African basil

146

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1902

First collected

2026

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Ocimum gratissimum, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2017

    New plant records from Kaho‘olawe Island and Midway Atoll

    Starr, F. & Starr, K. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2016

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2016: Volume

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2002

    Index to the Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for the years 1994 through 2000

    Evenhuis, N.L. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 2000

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1994–2000: Index

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2000

    Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i

    Staples, G.W., D. Herbst & C.T. Imada · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 1995

    Contributions to the Flora of Hawai‘i. III. Additions, range extensions, and rediscoveries of flowering plants

    Lorence, D.H., T.W. Flynn & W.L. Wagner · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

17 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1900s2020s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1902 by Pollard, C.L.; Palmer, E.; Palmer, W. (Cuba).

From the collection

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