Bussea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Bussea
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bussea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bussea
Bussea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. 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.
As of August 2023, seven species were accepted:
- 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
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acrocarpus
- Arapatiella
- Arcoa
- Batesia
- Burkea
- Bussea
- Caesalpinieae
- Campsiandra
- Cassieae
- Colvillea
- Conzattia
- Delonix
- Dimorphandra
- Dinizia
- Gleditsia
- Gymnocladus
- Heteroflorum
- Jacqueshuberia
- Kingiodendron
- Lophocarpinia
- Melanoxylon
- Moldenhawera
- Mora
- Orphanodendron
- Parkinsonia
- Peltophorum
- Plathymenia
- Pseudoprosopis
- Pterogyne
- Recordoxylon
- Schizolobium
- Stachyothyrsus
- Stahlia
- Stenodrepanum
- Sympetalandra
- Tachigali
- Tetrapterocarpon
- Umtiza
- Vouacapoua
- Wallaceodendron


