Bussea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Genus: Bussea
Harms
Species[1]

7; see text

Bussea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.[2] It includes seven species of trees and occasionally shrubs native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Guinea to Ghana in West Africa, from Gabon and Angola to Tanzania and Mozambique in central Africa, and to Madagascar. Habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forests and thickets, moist semi-deciduous forests, and evergreen rain forest.[1]

As of August 2023, seven species were accepted:[1]

  • Bussea eggelingii Verdc. – Tanzania
  • Bussea gossweileri Baker f. – Gabon to northeastern Angola
  • Bussea massaiensis (Taub.) Harms – Tanzania and Zambia
  • Bussea occidentalis Hutch. – Guinea to Ghana
  • Bussea perrieri R.Vig. – western Madagascar
  • Bussea sakalava Du Puy & R.Rabev. – northern and Western Madagascar
  • Bussea xylocarpa (Sprague) Sprague & Craib – Mozambique

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bussea Harms. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  2. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.


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