Coffea bissetiae

C. bissetiae Davis & Rakotonasolo

This is a shrub or small tree (single- or multi-stemmed), well-branched, reaching 2 to 3 meters in height, with a DBH of 1 to 5 cm. The branches have a diameter of 2 to 3 mm, and are gray to brown in color, with seasonal shoots that are cylindrical to slightly flattened. The leaves are stipulate and petiolate: petiole measuring 1.4 to 2.3 mm in length; the leaf blade is elliptical to oval; the base is rounded; the margin is ciliate; and the apex is abruptly acuminate or rarely acute.

The inflorescence is 5 to 6.4 mm long. The flowers are pentamerous (five-parted); pedicel is 1 to 1.5 mm long; calyx is 0.2 to 0.3 mm long; style is 2.2 to 2.4 cm long. The fruit is pubescent (covered with hairs, 0.1 to 0.3 mm long), laterally compressed (0.6 to 0.8 cm in length and width), and bilobed (didymous). The seeds are elliptical (5.3 to 6.2 mm in length and 4.4 to 5.3 mm in width, respectively), with a non-ramified main ventral invagination and are whitish-brown when dry.

C. bissetiae is distributed along the west coast of Madagascar, in the Mahajanga province, in the districts of Marovoay, Mahajanga II, and Boriziny. It grows in seasonally dry and deciduous forests, on sandy or lateritic soils, at altitudes of 10 to 240 meters.

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