Coffea arabica
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Family Rubiaceae
Taxonomy: Coffea arabica L.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): Qld (naturalised), LHI (doubtfully naturalised), NI (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (14), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (15), Stephens_2023 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_2021 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 35 traits from 52 records in 8 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 14.5 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 125 mm (70-180 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 52.5 mm (30-75 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): acute (1); obtuse (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (4) [sources: ATRP_2020; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
- pollination_system (categorical): insect (1); wind (1) [sources: Stephens_2023]
- dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnyyn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 12 mm (10-14 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 5.5 m (5-6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHNSW_2023 | 12 | 15 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| eFLOWER_2021 | 12 | 15 | J. Schönenberger, M. Balthazar, A. L. Martinez, B. Albert, C. Prieu, S. Magallon, and H. Sauquet. “Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead”. American Journal of Botany 107.10 (2020), pp. 1433-1448. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1538. |
| Cooper_2013 | 11 | 14 | W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 3 | 3 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| ATRP_2020 | 1 | 1 | F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html. |
| Stephens_2023 | 1 | 1 | R. E. Stephens, R. V. Gallagher, L. Dun, W. Cornwell, and H. Sauquet. “Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history”. New Phytologist 240.2 (2023), pp. 880-891. ISSN: 1469-8137. doi: 10.1111/nph.18993. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |