Charrier coffee

Charrier coffee, (Coffea charrieriana), species of coffee plant (genus Coffea, family Rubiaceae) found in Central Africa that was the first discovered to produce caffeine-free beans (seeds). Endemic to the Bakossi Forest Reserve in western Cameroon, the plant inhabits steep rocky slopes of wet rainforests. Charrier coffee was first collected in 1983; however, it was first described scientifically in 2008 after a morphological study discovered that it did not conform to descriptions of known Coffea species....