Excelsa is the trade name for Coffea dewevrei (C. liberica var. dewevrei), a Central African coffee grown on a small scale in Southeast Asia and India.
'Excelsa' is the trade name for coffee from Coffea dewevrei, formerly Coffea excelsa, which a 2006 reclassification treated as Coffea liberica var. dewevrei. A 2025 analysis of genomic, morphological and distributional data proposed it as a distinct Central African species. It is cultivated in Southeast Asia (including Vietnam and the Philippines) and India, but no official production statistics exist and the excelsa label is often applied loosely to liberica. Reported caffeine content is lower than in arabica.
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