Ocimum

Accepted species 66 Documented here 14 Family Lamiaceae

Accepted species 66 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Ocimum obovatum E.Mey. ex Benth. 220 documented
Ocimum gratissimum L. 42 documented
Ocimum americanum L. 39 documented
Ocimum basilicum L. 36 documented
Ocimum tenuiflorum L. 36 documented
Ocimum burchellianum Benth. 33 documented
Ocimum campechianum Mill. 30 documented
Ocimum labiatum (N.E.Br.) A.J.Paton 29 documented
Ocimum carnosum (Spreng.) Link & Otto ex Benth. 28 documented
Ocimum angustifolium Benth. 22 documented
Ocimum serratum (Schltr.) A.J.Paton 13 documented
Ocimum filamentosum Forssk. 6 documented
Ocimum grandiflorum Lam. 3 documented
Ocimum tubiforme (R.D.Good) A.J.Paton 3 documented
Ocimum reclinatum (S.D.Williams & K.Balkwill) A.J.Paton 2 below the evidence gate
Ocimum waterbergense (S.D.Williams & K.Balkwill) A.J.Paton 2 below the evidence gate
Ocimum × africanum Lour. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum albostellatum (Verdc.) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum amicorum A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum canescens A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum caryophyllinum F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum centrali-africanum R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum circinatum A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum coddii (S.D.Williams & K.Balkwill) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum cufodontii (Lanza) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum dambicola A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum decumbens Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum dhofarense (Sebald) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum dolomiticola A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum ellenbeckii Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum empetroides (P.A.Duvign.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum ericoides (P.A.Duvign. & Plancke) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum fimbriatum Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum fischeri Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum formosum Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum forskaolii Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum fruticosum (Ryding) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum hirsutissimum (P.A.Duvign.) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum irvinei J.K.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum jamesii Sebald 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum kenyense Ayob. ex A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum kilimandscharicum Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum lamiifolium Hochst. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum masaiense Ayob. ex A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum mearnsii (Ayob. ex Sebald) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum metallorum (P.A.Duvign.) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum minutiflorum (Sebald) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum mitwabense (Ayob.) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum monocotyloides (Plancke ex Ayob.) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum motjaneanum McCallum & K.Balkwill 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum natalense Ayob. ex A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum nudicaule Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum nummularia (S.Moore) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum ovatum Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum pseudoserratum (M.R.Ashby) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum pyramidatum (A.J.Paton) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum sebrabergensis Swanepoel & van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum serpyllifolium Forssk. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum spectabile (Gürke) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum spicatum Deflers 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum transamazonicum C.Pereira 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum urundense Robyns & Lebrun 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum vandenbrandei (P.A.Duvign. & Plancke ex Ayob.) A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum vanderystii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum verticillifolium Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Ocimum vihpyense A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.