Bussea
| Bussea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Genus: | Bussea Harms |
| Species[1] | |
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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
- ^ a b c Bussea Harms. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- ^ 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.