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''Alberta''Meyer, Ernest Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Linnaea; Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, Berlin 12: 258
/ref> 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''. It is native to
KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
, South Africa and is commonly known as Natal flame bush.


Taxonomy

The genus ''Alberta'' was shown to be
paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
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''.


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''Alberta'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae
Alberteae Flora of South Africa Plants described in 1838 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Ixoroideae-stub