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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 8/28/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 8/28/2013)
Species Coffea liberica Bull ex Hiern
PlaceOfPublication Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2(1): 171, tab. 24. 1876.
Note TYPE: Sierra Leon, Daniell (BM, not seen; photo, MO).
Description Shrubs or trees to 20 ft tall, the twiglets subangular, glabrous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong or obovate elliptic, 7.5-8.5 cm wide, short acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, the lateral veins ca. 12, coriaceous, glabrous; petioles to 2 cm long, stiff. Flowers not seen. Fruits oblong subrotund, to 2.0- 2.5 cm long at maturity (fide Standley & Steyermark), lightly grooved.
Habit Shrubs or trees
Native Liberia
Distribution cultivated throughout tropical areas of the world.
Note Standley & Williams (1975) describe the 6-8-parted flowers as ". . . several in a cluster, subsessile, 2.5 cm long; bractlets shorter than the subtruncate calyx; corolla lobes about as long as the tube; anthers not exserted." "Liberian Coffee."
Common Coffee
Specimen COLON: Achiote, Tyson et al. 4508 (MO).
 
 
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