Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 597 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in India, Persia."

White, C.T. & Francis, W.D. (1920), Contributions to the Queensland flora. Botany Bulletin. Department of Agriculture, Queensland 22: 28 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 147 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 805, Fig. 247B [secondary reference]

common name: Sweet Basil [n/a] common name: Basil [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 112 [secondary reference]

common name: Bush Basil [n/a]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 275 [secondary reference]

Bown, D. (2002), New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses Edn. Revised: 290 [secondary reference]

common name: Sweet Basil [n/a] common name: Basil [n/a]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

common name: Basil [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Ocimum x citriodorum Vis. legitimate by Forster, P.I. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Lamiaceae. Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens: 95

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Conn, B.J. (11 August 2014), Ocimum L. (Lamiaceae) in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Telopea 17: 173-174, Fig. 3 (map) APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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