depicted before, as Linnaeus was able to refer to Antoine de Jussieu, who named it Jasminum arabicum, published in 1715, after studying a specimen sent to him from the Botanic Garden of Amsterdam, Gaspard Bauhin's Pinax of 1623 under 'Evonymus IV' and Prospero Alpini's De plantis Aegypti liber, published in 1592.

Coffea arabica is one of the polyploid