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Coffea racemosa

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Name

Identification
Coffea racemosa Lour. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Coffea swynnertonii S.Moore [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Coffea swynnertonii
  • Coffea racemosa
  • Rudgea racemosa

Flora

Entry for COFFEA racemosa Lour. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
COFFEA racemosa Lour. [family RUBIACEAE], Fl. Cochin. p. 145 (1790), non Ruiz et Pavon (1799.)
COFFEA ramosa Roem. et Schult. [family RUBIACEAE], Syst. Veg. i. p. 198
COFFEA mozambicana DC. [family RUBIACEAE], Prodr. iv. p. 500.
Information
A much-branched little tree, 4 feet high; branches diffuse, terete. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, scattered with numerous tubercles, scabrous; petioles short. Flowers subterminal; racemes erect, brachiate; common peduncle long, 4-sided, the partial ones shorter, terete, opposite or whorled. Berries subglobose, small, red, watery, 2-seeded; seeds hemispherical.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique Island, Loureiro, in young fruit from July to September.
Notes
I have seen no specimen of this species. The seeds are used for coffee.

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