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  Bixaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bixaceae, or the achiote family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants.
Bixaceae includes 3 genera and a total of 25 species, although Cochlospermum is sometimes placed into its own family, Cochlospermaceae.
The best-known of the species in this family is the source of annatto, the achiote, which belongs to the type genus of the family.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bixaceae   (146 words)

  
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Bixaceae: Catalogue of Vascular Plant Species of Eastern Brazil from the New York Botanical Garden
Bixaceae: Information/Images from the University of Hawaii - Manoa)
Bixaceae: holdings from Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Conservatory - University of Connecticut
www.csdl.tamu.edu /FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Bixaceae   (148 words)

  
 PBIO 450 Lecture Notes - Dilleniidae -- Spring 1999
Its apetalous flowers and fruit approximate it to Bixaceae, its dotted leaves to Amyridaceae, near which De Candolle stations it, and its perigynous stamens to Rosaceae, with which its alternate stipulate leaves also ally it.
Placement of Bixaceae (3 species; entire leaves and generally a 2-carpel pistil), and its oft-recognized sister family, Cochlospermaceae (2 genera and about 20 species; palmately-lobed leaves and a 3-5 carpel pistil) has long been problematic.
The most significant point that can be made here is that Bixaceae, Cistaceae and their relatives are not members of the Violales, nor are they related to the Violanae.
www.life.umd.edu /emeritus/reveal/pbio/pb450/dill04.html   (1974 words)

  
 Malvales
Cochlospermaceae + Bixaceae + Diegodendraceae + Cistaceae + Sarcolaenaceae + Dipterocarpaceae form a group morphologically united as follows: plant with secretory canals; K imbricate; exotegmen curved inwards in chalazal region, hypostase plug with core and annulus.
Bixaceae + Diegodendraceae + Cochlospermaceae + Cistaceae form another group: leaf teeth with a single vein proceeding to opaque deciduous apex; embryo long, cotyledons thin, curved or folded, radicle short, stout.
Bixaceae have a peltate hairs, leaves with palmate venation and stipules ensheathing the bud; there is red or orange exudate.
www.mobot.org /MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/malvalesweb.htm   (5201 words)

  
 Malvaceae Info: Allied Families
These can be placed in 3 groups (each of which has been given the rank of order in some classifications), plus the three individual families Muntingiaceae, Neuradaceae, and Sphaerosepalaceae.
Bixaceae consists of a single genus, Bixa, with 5 species, found in the Neotropics.
Bixa orellana has a little economic importance as the source of the dye annato, commonly used as a food colorant or spice, and is now widely cultivated and naturalised in the tropics.
www.malvaceae.info /Classification/Allied.html   (434 words)

  
 Bixaceae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However, newer arrangements move it, like many of Violales' families, into Malvales.
Bixaceae covers 3 genera and a total of 25 species, although Cochlospermum is sometimes placed into its own family, Cochlospermaceae.
The best-known of the species in this family is the source of annatto, the achiote, which belongs to this family's type genus.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/bixaceae   (187 words)

  
 Bixaceae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There are 3 genera and 16 species in the Bixaceae family.
The Bixaceae family is native to tropical environments, and are usually trees or shrubs.
David James, a student at Michigan State, writes for The Michigan State Botany/ Greenhouse during the Spring semester of 2001 under a program established through The Michigan State Botany/ Greenhouse contact person John Mugg, and the American Thought and Language's Professor John Dowell.
www.msu.edu /~jamesda1/Bixaceae.html   (95 words)

  
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Name (Families) (Principle V) The name of family is written by adding ‘aceae’ at the end to a legitimate name of a genus in a particular family.
But alternative names were suggested later on Names in long usage Alternative names Palmae Arecaceae Graminae Poaceae Cruciferae Brassicacceae Leguminosae Fahaceae Guttiferae Clusiaceae Umbelliferae Apiaceae Labiatae Lamiaceae Compositae Asteraceae Ambiguous name is a name used in different senses so that it has become a long persistent source of error.
FAMILY: BIXACEAE Tree genera — Bixa orellana Bixa orellana - Annatto A small tree of CA often cultivated in SI.
www.tnau.ac.in /notesbscag/for/sem1/FTB101.doc   (6888 words)

  
 Plant Profile for Cochlospermum vitifolium (silk cottontree)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
View 3 genera in Bixaceae, 2 species in Cochlospermum
Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.
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plants.usda.gov /cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=COVI   (260 words)

  
 BoDD (Botanical Dermatology Database) - COCHLOSPERMACEAE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fifteen species in two genera (Cochlospermum Kunth and Amoreuxia Moçiño and Sessé) of trees and shrubs are found in tropical regions.
Whilst Brummitt (1992) considers the family Cochlospermaceae to be distinct, Mabberley (1987) considers these plants to belong to the Bixaceae.
The rootstock of one species yields a yellow dye that is capable of staining the mouth when ingested.
bodd.cf.ac.uk /BotDermFolder/BotDermC/COCH.html   (108 words)

  
 Anatto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Little and Wadsworth list it as Achiote, anatto, Bixa orellana L. of theAnatto Family (Bixaceae).
It's a small tree planted for the orange-red dye on the seeds, which has become naturalized.
If you've actually read down this far, kudoes, and I may as well note that the L. after the Latin botanical names refers to the system of taxonomic classification and bionomial nomenclature that the Swedish botanist, Karl Linne', or Carolus Leneaus, originated for plants and animals.
www.czbrats.com /Facts/annato.htm   (293 words)

  
 Achiote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bixaceae Bixa orellana L. Source: Magness et al.
The fruits are heart-shaped, brown or reddish brown at maturity, and are covered with short stiff hairs.
Last update June 26, 1996 by by aw
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/Crops/achiote.html   (100 words)

  
 Bixaceae Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I have a long term project of providing web pages on the
As a side line, I am also providing galleries of plants in the related families Bixaceae, Cistaceae, Cochlospermaceae and Thymelaeaceae.
Other families in the order Malvales - Sphaerosepalaceae, Tepuianthaceae, Muntingiaceae, Sarcolaenaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Neuradaceae and Diegodendraceae - are omitted as they are composed of tropical species which I do not have the opportunity to photograph.
www.malvaceae.info /Bixaceae/Genera/gallery.html   (127 words)

  
 Search Results for oleomargarine - Encyclopædia Britannica
(Bixa orellana), tree native to the New World tropics and the only species of the family Bixaceae.
Annatto grows up to 9 m (30 feet) tall and has rose-pink flowers about 5 cm (2 inches) wide and...
Expand your search on oleomargarine with these databases:
www.britannica.com /search?query=oleomargarine&submit=Find&source=MWTAB   (84 words)

  
 Definition of annatto - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
: a yellowish red dyestuff made from the pulp around the seeds of a tropical tree (Bixa orellana, family Bixaceae); also : this tree
For More Information on "annatto" go to Britannica.com
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www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=annatto   (95 words)

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