Bussea Explained

Bussea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.^[1] 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.

, seven species were accepted:

• Bussea eggelingii – Tanzania
• Bussea gossweileri – Gabon to northeastern Angola
• Bussea massaiensis – Tanzania and Zambia
• Bussea occidentalis – Guinea to Ghana
• Bussea perrieri – western Madagascar
• Bussea sakalava – northern and Western Madagascar
• Bussea xylocarpa – Mozambique

Notes and References

1. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). . 2017 . A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny . . 66 . 1 . 44–77 . 10.12705/661.3. free . 10568/90658 . free .