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Genus: Bixa
Family: Bixaceae.
Nomen number: 7249
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:512. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 27-Jan-1997
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- annatto (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- arnatto (Source: Websters Dict
) – English
- lipsticktree (Source: Hortus 3
) – English
- atole (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- roucou (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) – French
- roucouyer (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) – French
- Anattostrauch (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- Orleansstrauch (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- açafroa (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese
- açafroeira-da-terra (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- colorau (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- urucú (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- urucú-bravo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- urucum (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- achiote (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- achote (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- annato (Source: F VenGuay
) – Spanish
- bija (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
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Native:
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sinaloa
Central Mexico: Mexico - Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico - Chiapas, Tabasco, Yucatan; Nicaragua; Panama
Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
Brazil: Brazil
Western South America: Bolivia [n.]; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
Naturalized: - widely naturalized elsewhere in tropics
Cultivated: - widely cultivated elsewhere in tropics
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Adams, C.
1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
- Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi.
1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
- Dodson, C. H. & A. H. Gentry.
1978. Flora of the Rio Palenque science center. (F RPalenq)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds.
1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
- Feuillet, C.
1998. pers. comm. [re. French common names].
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds.
1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier).
1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell.
1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis. (F PR)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- McVaugh, R.
1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Roosmalen, M. G. van.
1977. Surinaams vruchtenboek. (Surinaam V)
- Spellman, D. L. et al.
A list of the monocotyledoneae/dicotyledonae of Belize. Published in Rhodora v. 77 & 83, 1975 & 1981 (L Belize)
- Spichiger, R., ed.
1985–. Flora del Paraguay. (F Parag)
- Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark.
1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
- Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed.
1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
- Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds.
1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds.
1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
- Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Bixa orellana L.:
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?7249 (09 February 2010)
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