）亦稱阿拉比卡種（Arabica），是最傳統的阿拉伯咖啡品種。原產於東非，在西元15世紀以前，咖啡長期被阿拉伯世界所壟斷，因此被歐洲人稱為「阿拉伯咖啡」。

原來世界上的商品咖啡都是小果咖啡，只是到了19世紀末，發生了一次大面積的病害，種植者才開始尋找其他抗病的品種，目前小果咖啡仍然是最主要的咖啡品種，約佔世界咖啡總產量的3/4。

主要在拉丁美洲各國種植，也有部分在印度尼西亞和太平洋島嶼種植。目前世界最大的咖啡產地巴西的地理氣候條件非常適合小果咖啡的生長，種植的主要咖啡品種也是小果咖啡，巴西的咖啡產量佔世界總產量的1/3以上。

Coffea arabica /əˈræbɪkə/ is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia. It is also known as the "coffee shrub of Arabia", "mountain coffee" or "arabica coffee". Coffea arabica is believed to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated, being grown in southwest Ethiopia for well over 1,000 years.

It is said to produce better tasting coffee than the other major commercially grown coffee species, Coffea canephora (robusta), because robusta cherries contain twice as much caffeine as arabica. Caffeine itself has a bitter taste, making robusta more bitter. C. arabica contains less caffeine than any other commercially cultivated species of coffee.

Putting aside some of the variations, such as ganoderma coffee, pure, natural coffee has a market estimated at over $70 billion each year.

Despite the huge market prices, and continually high demand, farmers in third world countries, such as Ethiopia which often struggles with famine, are payed a mere $0.03 for each cup of coffee that they provide for.