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Bixaceae
Sign in to saveThe Bixaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants commonly called the achiote family. Under the Cronquist system, the family was traditionally placed in the order Violales. However, newer arrangements move it, with some other families previously in the Violales, into the Malvales.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalvales
- FamilyBixaceae
La petite famille des Bixacées regroupe des plantes dicotylédones. Cette famille compte une vingtaine d'espèces réparties en 3 ou 4 genres. Le genre Bixa inclut 4 espèces de petits arbres ou d'arbustes originaires d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes. On en extrait un colorant alimentaire orange : le jaune de roucou. Le plus connu est le roucou (Bixa orellana).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 46
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Bixaceae
- Collections
- IGL-UNAM, BRIT, NY, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), MEL, UFPB
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Philippines, Brazil, Brasil, Samoa, ColôMbia, Belize, Uganda
Research
326 papers- Advances in Tissue Culture and Transformation Studies in Non-model Species: Bixa orellana L. (Bixaceae).Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
- The complete chloroplast genome of the lipstick tree, Bixa Orellana (Bixaceae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2019
- New species of Asclepias (Apocynaceae), Baphia (Leguminosae), Cochlospermum (Bixaceae) and Endostemon (Lamiaceae) from the Kalahari sands of Angola and NW Zambia, with one new combination in Vangueria (Rubiaceae).PhytoKeys · 2023
- Germination physiology of Cochlospermum fraseri (Bixaceae), a deciduous tree from Northern Australia with physical seed dormancy.Conservation physiology · 2023
- Bixa orellana (Bixaceae) seeds as a potential source of bioactive compounds for modulating postprandial hyperglycemia.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2025
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- taxonomic type
- Bixa
- taxon common name
- biksovke
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The Bixaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants commonly called the achiote family. Under the Cronquist system, the family was traditionally placed in the order Violales. However, newer arrangements move it, with some other families previously in the Violales, into the Malvales.
Although small, this family includes trees, herbs, and shrubs. The plants are bisexual, and all species have five sepals. All plants within the Bixaceae produce a red, orange, or yellow latex.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bixaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.