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Bussea occidentalis Hutch.

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HIGHER TAXON: Caesalpinieae

GENUS: Bussea Harms

Bussea occidentalis Hutch. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Samanta [13]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ghana (N) [11]; Ivory Coast (N) [11]; Liberia (N) [11]; Sierra Leone (N) [11]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guineo-Congolian forest. [11];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [11, 13] ; Illustration [12, 13]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1993 Zarucchi JL ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Food and Drink [14]; Medicine [13, 14]; Wood [13, 14]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

11.

  Keay, R.W.J., 1958
    Flora of West Tropical Africa.Ed.2;Vol.1,part 2

12.

  Aubreville, A., 1936
    La Flore Forestiere de la Cote d'Ivoire. Vol.1

13.

  Voorhoeve, A.G., 1965
    Liberian High Forest Trees

14.

  Dalziel, J.M., 1937
    The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa

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