Bengal Coffee
Coffea benghalensis
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- February-April
How to identify Bengal Coffee
Identify Bengal Coffee by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: February-April.
- In India, compare location records such as Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Rubiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Bengal Coffee.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Coffea benghalensis
- Genus
- Coffea
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Semi-Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Tropical Himalayas, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Java
- Found in India
- Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- February-April
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bengal Coffee itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bengal Coffee itself; the rest are typical of the Rubiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- বাংলা কফি
About Bengal Coffee
Bengal Coffee (Coffea benghalensis) is a shrub in the Rubiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and 2 other states. It grows in semi-Evergreen forests. Flowering and fruiting run from February to April.
Rubiaceae
Coffee/Madder family
Bengal Coffee belongs to the Rubiaceae family.
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