Bixaceae

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title: "Bixaceae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bixaceae", "malvales-families"] description: "Family of flowering plants" topic_path: "general/bixaceae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixaceae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of flowering plants ::

| image = Bixa bluete.jpg | image_caption = Bixa orellana (Achiote) | taxon = Bixaceae | authority = Kunth

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.

Genera

The Bixaceae include three genera and a total of 25 species, although Cochlospermum is sometimes placed into its own family Cochlospermaceae. The best-known species is the source of annatto, the achiote, which belongs to the type genus of the family.

• Bixa
• Cochlospermum (Amoreuxia is now a synonym)
• Diegodendron

References

References

1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
2. [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30008466-2 Plants of the World Online: ''Amoreuxia'' Moc. & Sessé ex DC.]

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