Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1
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Bixa orellana Linnaeus 1753

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Bixa orellana Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 512. 1753.

"Habitat in America calidiore." RCN: 3859.

Lectotype (Wijnands, Bot. Commelins: 51. 1983): Herb. Clifford: 211, Bixa 1 (BM-000628766).

Generitype of Bixa Linnaeus.

Current name: Bixa orellana L. (Bixaceae).

Note: Lescot (in Aubréville & Leroy, Fl. Cambodge Laos Vietnam 11: 101. 1970) and Villiers (in Aubréville & Leroy, Fl. Gabon 22: 62. 1973) indicated 674.1 (LINN) as type but this is a later addition to the herbarium and is not original material for the name. Bridson (in Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Bixaceae: 1. 1975) wrongly indicated the Clifford sheet as a syntype but as this statement implies no intention to indicate a single nomenclatural type (unlike the use of holotype, lectotype or neotype), this is not regarded as a correctable error.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B), pp. 343-369 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 352, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Material sample ID
BM-000628766
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Malvales
Family
Bixaceae
Genus
Bixa
Species
orellana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Bixa orellana Linnaeus, 1753 sec. Jarvis, 2007