Coffea libericaW.Bull

Liberian coffee

WFO wfo-0000911201 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Coffea liberica, photographed by Adam Kamal
fig. a Adam Kamal, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 198558268

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01088010
Filed as
Coffea liberica W.Bull
Det. by
D. E. Atha 1996-01-01
Collected
D. E. Atha 1996-06-09
Origin
BZ
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Coffea liberica is native: Benin, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sudan-South Sudan, Togo, Uganda BeninCabindaCameroonCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoGabonGhanaIvory CoastLiberiaNigeriaSudan-South SudanTogoUganda
Native distribution of Coffea liberica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Benin BEN AFRICA
Cabinda CAB
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 34 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Coffea abeokutae Cramer
  • Coffea abeokutae var. camerunensis A.Chev.
  • Coffea abeokutae var. indeniensis (Siebert) A.Chev.
  • Coffea abeokutae var. longicarpa Portères
  • Coffea abeokutae var. macrocarpa A.Chev.
  • Coffea abeokutae var. microcarpa A.Chev.
  • Coffea abeokutae var. sphaerocarpa Portères
  • Coffea arnoldiana De Wild.
  • Coffea aruwimiensis De Wild.
  • Coffea dewevrei De Wild. & T.Durand
  • Coffea dewevrei var. aruwimiensis (De Wild.) A.Chev.
  • Coffea dewevrei var. dybowskii (Pierre ex De Wild.) A.Chev.
  • Coffea dewevrei var. excelsa (A.Chev.) A.Chev.
  • Coffea dewevrei var. ituriensis A.Chev.
  • Coffea dewevrei var. neoarnoldiana (A.Chev.) A.Chev.
  • Coffea dewevrei var. sylvatica (A.Chev.) A.Chev.
  • Coffea dewevrei var. zenkeri (K.Krause ex De Wild.) A.Chev.
  • Coffea dybowskii H.C.Hall
  • Coffea dybowskii Pierre ex De Wild.
  • Coffea excelsa A.Chev.
  • Coffea excelsoidea Portères ex A.Chev.
  • Coffea klainei Pierre ex De Wild.
  • Coffea liberica var. aurantiaca A.Chev.
  • Coffea liberica var. gossweileri A.Chev.

and 10 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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