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.

, 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