MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE



Sorting Bixa names

Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :

 


Bixa orellana L. (GRIN)

SYNONYM(S) : Bixa acuminata Poir., Bixa americana Boj., Bixa odorata Ruiz. & Pav. Ex D. Don (W3trop), Bixa platycarpa Ruiz. & Pav., Bixa purpurea Sweet, Bixa tinctoria Salisb., Bixa upatensis Ram. Goyena, Orellana americana Kuntze (IPNI), Orellana orellana (L.) Kuntze (IPNI)

BENGALI : Latka.

CHINESE :   红木  Hong mu,  臙脂木  Yan zhi mu,  臙脂樹  Yan zhi shu .

DANISH :  Annatobusken, Orleantræ, Smørfarvetræ.

DUTCH :   Anatto, Rocou, Annotto, Achiote, Orleaan  CHECK THOSE

ENGLISH : Anatto, Anatto tree, Annatto, Annatto plant, Annatto seeds, Annatto tree, Lipstick tree.

ESTONIA :  Annatopõõsa, Värvibiksa.

FINNISH : Annaatto.

FRENCH : Annato, Atole (Rehm), Rocou, Rocouyer, Roucou (West Indies) (GRIN) , Roucouyer (GRIN)

GERMAN : Anatto, Anattosamen, Annattosamen, Anattostrauch (Rehm), Orleansbaum, Orleansamen, Orleanstrauch. Orlean-strauch (Rehm).

HINDI : Lathwa, Latkana, Sindhuri.

HUNGARIAN :  Bjoul , Orleánfa, Ruku.

ITALIAN : Annatto, Anotto .

JAPANESE :   アチオテ   Achiote, アナトー  Anatoo, アナット Anatto,  ベニノキ   Beni no ki.

KHMER : Châm' puu, Châm' puu chrâluëk'.

KOREAN :   아치오테   A chi o te, 아 나토  A na to,  빅사속   Bik sa sok .

LAOTIAN : Kh'am, Satii, Sômz phuu.

MALAY : Jarak belanda, Kunyit jawa, Kesumba (Indonesia), Kesumba kling (Indonesia).

MARATHI :  सेंदरी   Sendrii.

NEPALESE :      Sindur,    Sindure.

PORTUGUESE : Açafroa (Rehm), Acafroeira da terra (Brazil), Açafroa do Brasil, Anato, Annato (Brazil), Urucú (Brazil), Urucú bravo (Brazil), Urucú da mata (Brazil), Urucum (Brazil).

RUSSIAN :   Ачиоте  Achiote, Аннато Annato, Бикса Biksa, Бикса орельяна   Biksa orel'ina,  Помадное дерево  Pomadnoe derevo.

SERBIAN :  Орлеан-дрво  Orlean-drvo.

SPANISH : Achiotl (Nahuatl), Achihuite (Colombia), Achiote (Rehm), Achiote caspi, Achote (Panama) (Rehm), Bija (Puerto Rico) (Rehm), Bijol, Chacuanguarica (Puerto Rico), Onoto (Venezuela), Pumacua (Puerto Rico).

SUNDANESE : Galuga.

SWEDISH :  Annattobuske.

TAGALOG : Achuete, Asuete, Achwete, Echuete.

TAMIL :  Jabra,  கொங்காரம்  Kongaram,  சப்பிரா   Sappira.

THAI : Kam sêt,  คำแฝด  Kham faet, คำงะ   Kham ngae, คำเงาะ  Kham ngo, คำแด   Kham saet (Bangkok),  คำไทย  Kham thai.

VIETNAMESE : Diêù nhuôm, Hột điều màu.

VISAYAN : Sotis.


Photographs, description and a lot more on Gernot Katzer's excellent Spice Pages.


Bixa orellana L. var. leiocarpa (Kuntze) Standl. & L. O. Williams (GRIN)

SYNONYM(S) : Orellana americana Kuntze var. leiocarpa Kuntze) (GRIN) (IPNI)

 

Most modern authors place these names among the synonyms of the one and only recognized specie


Bixa orellana L. var. urucurana (Kuntze) Standl. & L. O. Williams (GRIN)

SYNONYM(S) : Bixa sphaerocarpa Triana (W3trop), Bixa urucurana Willd. (GRIN), Orellana americana Kuntze var. urucurana Kuntze (GRIN) (W3trop)

 

Most modern authors place these names among the synonyms of the one and only recognized species.





HOW TO CITE THIS PAGE / COLLECTION OF RECORDS

Porcher Michel H. et al. 1995 - 2020, Sorting  Bixa Names. Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database   (M.M.P.N.D - A Work in Progress. School of Agriculture and Food Systems. Faculty of Land & Food Resources. The University of Melbourne. Australia.
< http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Bixa.html > (2007).

 

REFERENCES
General Bibliography
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Specific & complementary

 

EURODICAUTOM, On-line Technical Dictionary in 12 languages provided by the European Commission < http://eurodic.echo.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl?page=expert >.

Katzer Gernot, 2007, Spice pages. Annatto (Bixa orellana L.). < http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Bixa_ore.html >.

Mabberley D.J. 1997, The Plant-Book : a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2d Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

Rajendran R. , 1991, Bixa orellana L., In Lemmens R.H.M.J. & Wulijarni-Soetjipto N. (Editors) : Plant Resources of South-East Asia N°3 . Dye and Tannin-Producing Plants. Pudoc Scientific Publishers, Wageningen. pp 50 - 53.

USDA, ARS, 2004, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxdump.pl?bixa (30 August 2004).

Wiersema J. H. & León B. 1999, World Economic Plants : a Standard Reference. CRC Press LLC.

Xie Zongwa & Yu Youqin (Editors), 1996, Materia Medica, Chinese Terminology, Vol. 1, Renminweisheng Publishing House Beijing, China.

 

Contributors to this page (Personal communication) : In progress.

 


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