Alberta magna

Alberta[1] is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. Most species have been transferred to the genus Razafimandimbisonia, except for the type species Alberta magna.[2] It is native to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and is commonly known as Natal flame bush.

Natal flame bush
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Ixoroideae
Tribe: Alberteae
Genus: Alberta
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Species:
A. magna
Binomial name
Alberta magna
Synonyms
  • Ernestimeyera Kuntze

Taxonomy

The genus Alberta was shown to be paraphyletic in a phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Alberteae. The type species Alberta magna is set apart from the Malagasy Alberta species that are now included in the genus Razafimandimbisonia.[2]

gollark: It's not just some arbitrary thing where you have to set up a GPS host or it won't tell you some location it magically got, it actually *requires* the hosts to work.
gollark: It uses true range multilateration on those to figure out the location of your client device.
gollark: `gps.locate` knows the distances to each GPS host, and their locations.
gollark: No, not necessarily.
gollark: https://wiki.computercraft.cc/images/d/d5/Gps-cluster.jpg

References

  1. Meyer, Ernest Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Linnaea; Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, Berlin 12: 258
  2. Kainulainen K, Mouly A, Khodabandeh A, Bremer B (2009). "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Alberteae (Rubiaceae), with description of a new genus, Razafimandimbisonia". Taxon. 58 (3): 757–768.


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