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.

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