| Latin name | Ocimum americanum L. | | Family | Lamiaceae | | Identified with (Lat) | Ocimum canum Sims | | Identified with (Skt) | vanabarbarikā, āraṇyatulasī | | Identified with (Hin) | vantulsī | | Identified with (Tam) | nāyttuḷaci | | Identified with (Mal) | kāṭṭutuḷasi, kāṭṭutṛttāvu, kāṭṭurāmattuḷasi | | Identified with (Eng) | Hoary basil | | Botanical info | A pubescent erect herb, 15 - 60 cm high, growing throughout India, leaves elliptic-lanceolate, entire or faintly tothed, glabrous and gland dotted, flowers white, pink or purplish in elongate racemes, fruits small nutlets | | Search occurrence | vanabarbarikā, āraṇyatulasī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Ocimum americanum L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 917)
vanabarbarikā, f. Ocimum Pilosum, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2220)
nāyttuḷaci: Basil
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