- Coffea arabica Coffea arabica Native to highland forests of Ethiopia and South Sudan, and cultivated worldwide for roughly 60 percent of global coffee production.
- Coffea liberica Coffea liberica A tall tree with large, asymmetric beans from West African forests, grown as a minor crop and known in the Philippines as Barako.
- Coffea anthonyi Coffea anthonyi A wild Cameroon-Congo species described in 1999, studied for its relatively low natural caffeine content.
- Coffea benghalensis Coffea benghalensis Wild species native to Nepal to Indo-China.
- Coffea brassii Coffea brassii Wild species native to New Guinea to N. Queensland.
- Coffea brevipes Coffea brevipes A little-studied Central African wild species from Cameroon, Congo, Gabon and the Rwandan lake forests.
- Coffea canephora Coffea canephora A diploid, self-incompatible tree of lowland tropical Africa, grown worldwide as robusta and known as conilon in Brazil.
- Coffea charrieriana Coffea charrieriana A caffeine-free wild coffee from West Cameroon, described in 2008 and only the second caffeine-free Coffea recorded in Africa.
- Coffea cochinchinensis Coffea cochinchinensis Wild species native to Cambodia to Vietnam.
- Coffea congensis Coffea congensis A Congo Basin riverine coffee that tolerates waterlogging and readily hybridizes with robusta, giving hybrids such as Congusta.
- Coffea dewevrei Coffea dewevrei A large Central African forest species long sold under the trade name Excelsa, historically treated as a variety of liberica.
- Coffea ebracteolata Coffea ebracteolata Wild species native to W. Tropical Africa to Cameroon.
- Coffea eugenioides Coffea eugenioides A lower-caffeine East and Central African wild diploid, and the maternal parent of Coffea arabica.
- Coffea floresiana Coffea floresiana Wild species native to Lesser Sunda Islands.
- Coffea fragrans Coffea fragrans Wild species native to India (Kerala), Bangladesh to Myanmar.
- Coffea horsfieldiana Coffea horsfieldiana Wild species native to Jawa.
- Coffea mabesae Coffea mabesae Wild species native to Malesia to Queensland (Torres Strait Islands).
- Coffea malabarica Coffea malabarica Wild species native to SW. India.
- Coffea mannii Coffea mannii Wild species native to W. & W. Central Tropical Africa.
- Coffea mauritiana Coffea mauritiana A low-caffeine wild coffee endemic to Mauritius and Réunion, historically explored as a naturally decaf breeding source.
- Coffea melanocarpa Coffea melanocarpa Wild species native to Cabinda to Angola.
- Coffea merguensis Coffea merguensis Wild species native to Indo-China.
- Coffea neobridsoniae Coffea neobridsoniae Wild species native to SW. India, Assam.
- Coffea neoleroyi Coffea neoleroyi Wild species native to SW. Ethiopia to NE. Uganda.
- Coffea racemosa Coffea racemosa A low-caffeine southeast African wild coffee of coastal forests, noted for heat resilience and studied as a gene pool for breeding.
- Coffea sapinii Coffea sapinii Wild species native to DR Congo.
- Coffea stenophylla Coffea stenophylla A West African wild species that grows in much warmer climates than arabica. A 2021 study of its cup reported arabica-like flavor.
- Coffea wightiana Coffea wightiana Wild species native to SW. India, Sri Lanka.
- Coffea zanguebariae Coffea zanguebariae A very-low-caffeine coastal East African wild species long studied as a source of naturally decaffeinated genetics.
The rest of the genus
Wild coffees, most of them in African and Malagasy forests, many endangered. Names and native ranges follow Kew's Plants of the World Online (CC BY).
- Coffea abbayesiiMadagascar
- Coffea affinisCôte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone
- Coffea alleizettiiMadagascar
- Coffea ambanjensisMadagascar
- Coffea ambongensisMadagascar
- Coffea andrambovatensisMadagascar
- Coffea ankaranensisMadagascar
- Coffea arenesianaMadagascar
- Coffea augagneuriiMadagascar
- Coffea bakossiiCameroon
- Coffea bertrandiiMadagascar
- Coffea betamponensisMadagascar
- Coffea bissetiaeMadagascar
- Coffea boinensisMadagascar
- Coffea boivinianaMadagascar
- Coffea bonnieriMadagascar
- Coffea bridsoniaeTanzania
- Coffea buxifoliaMadagascar
- Coffea callmanderiMadagascar
- Coffea carrissoiAngola
- Coffea commersonianaMadagascar
- Coffea costatifructa
- Coffea coursianaMadagascar
- Coffea dactyliferaCongo - Kinshasa
- Coffea darainensisMadagascar
- Coffea decaryanaMadagascar
- Coffea dubardiiMadagascar
- Coffea fadeniiKenya, Tanzania
- Coffea farafanganensisMadagascar
- Coffea fotsoanaCameroon
- Coffea fragilisMadagascar
- Coffea gallieniiMadagascar
- Coffea greveiMadagascar
- Coffea heimiiMadagascar
- Coffea homolleiMadagascar
- Coffea humbertiiMadagascar
- Coffea humblotianaComoros
- Coffea humilis
- Coffea jumellei
- Coffea kalobinonensis
- Coffea kapakata
- Coffea kianjavatensisMadagascar
- Coffea kihansiensis
- Coffea kimbozensis
- Coffea kivuensis
- Coffea klainei
- Coffea labatii
- Coffea lancifoliaMadagascar
- Coffea lebruniana
- Coffea leonimontana
- Coffea leroyi
- Coffea liaudii
- Coffea ligustroides
- Coffea littoralis
- Coffea lulandoensis
- Coffea macrocarpa
- Coffea madurensis
- Coffea magnistipula
- Coffea mangoroensisMadagascar
- Coffea manombensisMadagascar
- Coffea mapianaCameroon
- Coffea mayombensisAngola, Congo - Kinshasa, Congo - Brazzaville, Cameroon …
- Coffea mcphersonii
- Coffea microdubardiiMadagascar
- Coffea millotiiMadagascar
- Coffea minutifloraMadagascar
- Coffea mogenetiiMadagascar
- Coffea mongensis
- Coffea montekupensis
- Coffea montis-sacri
- Coffea moratii
- Coffea mufindiensis
- Coffea myrtifoliaMauritius
- Coffea namorokensis
- Coffea perrieriMadagascar
- Coffea pervilleanaMadagascar
- Coffea pocsiiTanzania
- Coffea pseudozanguebariaeKenya, Tanzania
- Coffea pterocarpaMadagascar
- Coffea pustulataMadagascar
- Coffea rakotonasoloiMadagascar
- Coffea ratsimamangaeMadagascar
- Coffea resinosaMadagascar
- Coffea rhamnifoliaKenya, Somalia
- Coffea richardiiMadagascar
- Coffea rizetianaCameroon
- Coffea rupicolaMadagascar
- Coffea sahafaryensisMadagascar
- Coffea sakarahaeMadagascar
- Coffea salvatrixMalawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- Coffea sambavensisMadagascar
- Coffea schliebenii
- Coffea semsei
- Coffea sessiliflora
- Coffea tetragona
- Coffea togoensis
- Coffea toshii
- Coffea travancorensis
- Coffea tricalysioides
- Coffea tsirananae
- Coffea vatovavyensis
- Coffea vavateninensis
- Coffea vianneyi
- Coffea vohemarensis