Taxon:
Coffea liberica W. Bull ex Hiern var. liberica
Summary
Verified:
04/13/2007
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Bertrand, B. et al. 2002. Growth, production, and bean quality of Coffea arabica as affected by interspecific grafting: consequences for rootstock breeding. HortScience 36:269-273.
- Bridson, D. M. 1985. The lectotypification of Coffea liberica (Rubiaceae). Kew Bull. 40:806.
- Davis, A. P. et al. 2006. An annotated taxonomic conspectus of the genus Coffea (Rubiaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 152:488-489.
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
- Maurin, O. et al. 2007. Towards a phylogeny for Coffea (Rubiaceae): Identifying well-supported lineages based on nuclear and plastid DNA sequences. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 100:1565-1583. URL: http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Prakash, N. S. et al. 2002. AFLP analysis of introgression in coffee cultivars (Coffea arabica L.) derived from a natural interspecific hybrid. Euphytica 124:265-271. Note: this study confirmed that the most common strain cultivated in India represents a hybrid between Coffea arabica and C. liberica var. liberica
- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
Common names
English
Liberian coffee – liberica coffee – French
caféier de Liberia – German
Liberiakaffeebaum – Liberiakaffeestrauch – Portuguese
café-libérica – Spanish
cafeto de Liberia –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Uganda | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Angola | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Benin | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Côte D'Ivoire | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Ghana | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Guinea | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Liberia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Nigeria | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Cameroon | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Central African Republic | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Congo | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Gabon | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | | Africa | | |
6 | Other | | | | | exact native range obscure |
Native
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Uganda
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Central African Republic, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Gabon
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WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Benin, Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola
Cultivated
Africa
Other
(exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | beverage base | | Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa. |
Human food | beverage base | | Bridson, D. M. 1985. The lectotypification of Coffea liberica (Rubiaceae). Kew Bull. 40:806. |