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Coffea arabica

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Name

Identification
Coffea arabica Benth. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Coffea arabica
Common name
  • Abyssinian coffee, Arabian coffee, Brazilian coffee., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for COFFEA arabica L. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
COFFEA arabica L. [family RUBIACEAE], (1753).
Information
Shrub or small tree; young branchlets glabrous. Leaf-blades elliptic to lanceolate or almost round, 6–18 x 2–10 cm, acuminate at the apex, glabrous, shiny above; stipules triangular, 4–8 mm long, acute. Flowers usually 5-merous, in axillary clusters. Calyx-limb a short rim, sometimes with irregular teeth up to 1 mm long. Corolla white; tube 7–11 mm long; lobes 8–16 mm long. Drupe red, ellipsoid to subglobose, 1–2 cm long.
Range
Locally grown for the seeds (coffee beans) in N2 presumably native to S Ethiopia, SE Sudan, and N Kenya, widely cultivated throughout the tropics.
Notes
Arabian coffee (Eng.); bun (Som.).

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