A taxonomic revision of the baracoffea alliance: Nine remarkable Coffea species from western Madagascar

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-390

  Davis, Aaron P ^a   Rakotonasolo, Franck ^b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b PARC BOTANIQUE ET ZOOLOGIQUE DE TSIMBAZAZA   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Coffea subgenus Baracoffea; Coffee; Coffeeae; IUCN Red List Categories; Morphology; Plant conservation; Rubiaceae; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

COFFEE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; RED LIST; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION TYPE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

COFFEA; COFFEEAE; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 55649125254     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2008.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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