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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:
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Bussea perrieri
speciesBussea perrieri
Bussea occidentalis
speciesBussea occidentalis
Bussea sakalava
speciesBussea sakalava
Bussea xylocarpa
speciesBussea xylocarpa
Bussea massaiensis
speciesBussea massaiensis
Bussea eggelingii
speciesBussea eggelingii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 139476.