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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Bixa

Hierarchical position of the Genus Bixa

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Malvanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 242. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Cistales Rchb. pub. Bot. Damen: 496. 1828.       Familia  Bixaceae Link pub. Handbuch 2: 371. Jan-Aug 1831.       Subfamilia  Bixoideae Burmeist. pub. Handb. Naturgesch.: 347. 1837.       Tribus  Bixeae Rchb. pub. Handb. Nat. Pfl.-Syst.: 273. 1-7 Oct 1837.       Subtribus  Bixinae Kitt. in A. Rich. pub. Nouv. El�m. Bot., ed. 3, Germ. transl.: 903. 1840.       Genus  Bixa L. pub. (1753) common name: bixa

Named members of the Genus Bixa

1	Species  orellana L. common name: lipsticktree, annatto, urucu, achiote, roucou, achiotl  (Nahuatl Aztec), urunu  (Venezuela)

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.