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Coffea arabica L. Rubiaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa

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Coffea arabica var. stenophyllea Bello; Coffea corymbulosa Bertol.; Coffea laurifolia Salisb.; Coffea moka Heynh.; Coffea sundana Miq.; Coffea vulgaris Moench

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Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Njoroge, G.N. (2021). Coffea arabica L. Rubiaceae. In: Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38386-2_45

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