A new caffeine-free coffee from Cameroon

  1. PIET STOFFELEN1,*,
  2. MICHEL NOIROT2,
  3. EMMANUEL COUTURON2,
  4. FRANÇOIS ANTHONY3

Article first published online: 3 SEP 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00845.x

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Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volume 158, Issue 1, pages 67–72, September 2008

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STOFFELEN, P., NOIROT, M., COUTURON, E. and ANTHONY, F. (2008), A new caffeine-free coffee from Cameroon. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 158: 67–72. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00845.x

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  1. 1

    National Botanic Garden of Belgium & Domein van Bouchout 1860 Meise, Belgium

  2. 2

    IRD, Station CIRAD-3P, 7 chemin de l’Irat, Ligne Paradis 97410 Saint Pierre, France

  3. 3

    IRD, UMR RPB, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier cedex 5, France

* *E-mail: piet.stoffelen@br.fgov.be

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 3 SEP 2008
  2. Article first published online: 3 SEP 2008
  3. Received 27 February 2007; accepted for publication 29 February 2008

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Keywords:

  • Bakossi Mountains;
  • centre of diversity;
  • Coffea charrieriana;
  • genetic resources;
  • Psilanthus;
  • Rubiaceae

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. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2008, 158, 67–72.

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