In Africa, Coffea species are distributed in a diversity of forest types, but primarily found in humid, evergreen forest. The first African wild coffee reported as caffeine-free (namely Coffea pseudozanguebariae) was from Kenya, East Africa.
Later, a new species from Cameroon called Coffea charrieriana was also found to be caffeine free.
The plant is named for Professor André Charrier, who managed coffee breeding research during the last 30 years of the 20th century.
Coffea charrieriana
