Biology:Bussea

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Bussea
Scientific classification e
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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5002022 entry