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Coffea semsei A.P.Davis 2010, comb. nov.

Description

Coffea semsei (Bridson) A.P.Davis, comb. nov.

Psilanthus semsei Bridson (1882: 36). Type: TANZANIA. Ulanga District: Magombera Forest Reserve, 8 November 1961, S.R. Semsei 3400 (holotype K!).

Distribution: — Tanzania (Ulanga). TDWG: 25 TAN.

Characteristics:— Coffea semsei can be set apart from all other species of Coffea formerly placed in Psilanthus due to the following combination of characters: habit deciduous; leaves membranous; leaf apex acuminate; stipules deltate to triangular, shortly apiculate (apiculum 1–2 mm long), stipular lobes of the calyculi narrowly triangular and glume-like; calyx with shortly triangular lobes, and each lobe bearing several colletes; and corolla lobes distinctly acuminate.

Notes

Published as part of Davis, Aaron P., 2010, Six species of Psilanthus transferred to Coffea (Coffeeae, Rubiaceae), pp. 41-45 in Phytotaxa 10 on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.10.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4899780

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Biodiversity

Family
Rubiaceae
Genus
Coffea
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Gentianales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
A.P.Davis
Species
semsei
Taxon rank
species