Coffea dewevrei De Wildeman & T. Durand.

Small trees or large shrubs, 6-15 m tall; branches flattened to weakly angled, often rather stout, glabrous. Petiole 8-20 mm, often rather stout, glabrous; leaf blade drying thinly leathery to stiffly papery, elliptic to obovate or obovate-elliptic, 14-38 × 5.5-12(-20.5) cm, glabrous on both surfaces, base cuneate to obtuse, margins flat, apex obtuse to shortly acuminate with tip 4-10 mm; secondary veins 7-10(-13) pairs, without domatia or with glabrous to pilosulous foveolate domatia; stipules broadly triangular, 2-4.5 mm, obtuse to acute but not aristate. Inflorescences with cymes 1-3 per axil, each cyme fasciculate to subcapitate, 2-10-flowered, subsessile; bracts cupuliform, 1-3 mm; pedicels to 1 mm. Calyx glabrous; ovary portion ellipsoid-cylindrical, 1.5-3.5 mm; limb reduced or glandular-denticulate, to 0.2 mm. Corolla white, funnelform, outside glabrous; tube 4-13 mm; lobes 6-8, spatulate to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 8-16 mm, obtuse to rounded. Drupe red, ellipsoid, 19-21 × 15-17 mm, smooth when dry, glabrous. Fl. Jan-May, fr. presumably Aug-Nov.

This species is diploid and is cultivated as "Liberica Coffee." It has been hybridized with several other species to produce commercial coffee plants.

Cultivated in moist, warm to cool regions. Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan [widespread in tropical Africa; widely but not intensively cultivated in tropical regions worldwide].