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The genus Bixa is in the family Bixaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Bixa

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Bixa arborea Huber	Accepted		WCSP
Bixa excelsa Gleason & Krukoff	Accepted		WCSP
Bixa orellana L.	Accepted		WCSP
Bixa platycarpa Ruiz & Pav. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Bixa urucurana Willd.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 14 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bixa. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bixa. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 14 species names for the genus Bixa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	35.7%
◕	Synonym	9	64.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 18 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bixa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	27.8%
◕	Synonym	13	72.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 14 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bixa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	5	9	0	0	14	100%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Bixa, are as follows: