Coffea charrieriana, also known as Charrier coffee, is a species of flowering plant from the Coffea genus. It is a caffeine-free coffee plant endemic to ...CoffeacharrierianaFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchSpeciesofcoffeeplantCoffeacharrierianaConservationstatusCriticallyEndangered (IUCN3.1)[1]ScientificclassificationKingdom:PlantaeClade:TracheophytesClade:AngiospermsClade:EudicotsClade:AsteridsOrder:GentianalesFamily:RubiaceaeGenus:CoffeaSpecies:C. charrierianaBinomialnameCoffeacharrierianaStoff.&F.AnthonyCoffeacharrieriana,alsoknownasCharriercoffee,isaspeciesoffloweringplantfromtheCoffeagenus.Itisacaffeine-freecoffeeplantendemictoCamerooninCentralAfrica.Itisthefirstrecordedcaffeine-freeCoffeainCentralAfrica,andthesecondtoberecordedinAfrica.[2]Thefirstcaffeine-freespecieswaspreviouslydiscoveredinKenya,namedC.pseudozanguebariae.[3]TheInternationalInstituteforSpeciesExplorationatArizonaStateUniversityandacommitteeoftaxonomistsandscientistsvotedtheC.charrierianaasoneofthetop10speciesdescribedin2008.[4]Contents1Taxonomy2Distributionandhabitat3History4Description5Biochemistry6Cultivationanduse7References8ExternallinksTaxonomy[edit]CoffeacharrierianaisclassifiedundertheRubiaceaefamilyandthegenusofCoffea.Theyarecurrently120speciesofCoffeaspreadintropicalAfricaandAsia,inwhichtwospecies;CoffeaarabicaandCoffeacanephoradominateworldwidecoffeeplantproduction,makingup99%ofproduce.[2]Distributionandhabitat[edit]ThisplantisendemictoWestCameroonintheBakossiForestReserve.Itgrowsinahabitatofwetrainforestonrockyslopesofanaltitudeof160m[2]andameanelevationrangeof300m.Itishighlythreatenedbydeforestationforloggingandpalmoilproductioninitsvulnerablelowlandforesthabitat.[1]History[edit]Coffeacharrierianawasdiscoveredin2008andthefindingswerepublishedinapapernamed“Anewcaffeine-freecoffeefromCameroon”totheBotanicalJournaloftheLinneanSociety.[2]Theplantwasnamedbyauthorsofthepaper,PietStoffelenandFrancoisAnthonyinhonourofProfessorA.Charrierwhohadmadesignificanteffo