Rubiaceae
Coffea

Coffea humilis A.Chev.

First published in Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 145: 349 (1907)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Guinea to SW. Ivory Coast. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Davis, A.P., Govaerts, R., Bridson, D.M. & Stoffelen, P. (2006). An annotated taxonomic conspectus of the genus Coffea (Rubiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 152: 465-512.
  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Chev. Caf. du Globe 2: tt. 55 & 56: 3: 165.
  • in C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 145: 349 (1907)

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Adam, J.G. [20380] Liberia K000042929 No
Baldwin, J.T. [11314] Liberia K000042927 No
Chevalier, A. [16406] Cote d'Ivoire K000042934 Type Yes
Linder, D.H. [628] Liberia K000042930 No
Hallé, F. [255] Cote d'Ivoire K000042933 No
Harley, W.J. [1523] Liberia K000042928 No
Thiam, A.; Simbiano, F.J.; Delamou, I.; Muany, E. [33] Guinea K000557468 No
Jongkind, C.C.H.; Sambolah, G. [13640] Liberia K001519154 Yes
Baldwin, J.T. [9327] Liberia K000042924 No
Cooper, G.P. [137] Liberia K000042931 No
Baldwin, J.T. [10295] Liberia K000042926 No
Baldwin, J.T. [6071] Liberia K000042925 No
Bamps, P. [2463] Cote d'Ivoire K000042932 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images