A new caffeine-free coffee from Cameroon

2008/09/01 by Piet Stoffelen, Michel Noirot, Emmanuel Couturon +1 · 2 citations
Medicine · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Coffee research and impacts #Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy #Biochemical and biochemical processes

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00845.x

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Abstract

A new Coffea species from Cameroon is described and compared with the other species of Central Africa. Coffea charrieriana Stoff. & F. Anthony can be recognized easily using morphological characters of leaves, flowers and fruits. Moreover, it is the first record of a caffeine-free Coffea species for Central Africa and only the second report for the African continent. Cameroon is one of the three centres of diversity for the genus Coffea, showing a similar number of species to that of Tanzania.

Citations

• An annotated taxonomic conspectus of the genus Coffea (Rubiaceae)

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