Alberteae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Ixoroideae
Tribus: Alberteae
Genera: Alberta – Nematostylis – Razafimandimbisonia
Name

Alberteae Sond., 1865.

Typus: Alberta
E.Mey.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Albertinae K.Schum., Nat. Pflanzenfam. (H.G.A. Engler & K.A.E. Prantl) IV, 4: 16, 87. 1891.
Albertoideae Luerss., Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 1083. 1882.

References

Sonder, O.W. 1865. Flora Capensis; being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (W.H.Harvey & O.W.Sonder) 3: 1.
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. JSTOR PDF Reference page.
Kainulainen, K., Razafimandimbison, S.G. & Bremer, B. 2013. Phylogenetic relationships and new tribal delimitations in subfamily Ixoroideae (Rubiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 173(3): 387-406. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12038 PDF Reference page.

Alberteae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 18 species in 3 genera. Its representatives are found in tropical and southern Africa and in Madagascar.[1]
Genera

Currently accepted names[1][2][3][4]

Alberta E.Mey. (1 sp)
Aulacocalyx Hook.f. (12 sp)
Razafimandimbisonia Kainul. & B.Bremer (5 sp)

Synonyms

Dorothea Wernham = Aulacocalyx
Ernestimeyera Kuntze = Alberta

References

"World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved 28 April 2016.
Bremer B (2009). "A review of molecular phylogenetic studies of Rubiaceae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 96: 4–26. doi:10.3417/2006197. S2CID 53378010.
Bremer B, Eriksson E (2009). "Time tree of Rubiaceae: phylogeny and dating the family, subfamilies, and tribes". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 170 (6): 766–793. doi:10.1086/599077. S2CID 49332892.
Robbrecht E, Manen J-F (2006). "The major evolutionary lineages of the coffee family (Rubiaceae, angiosperms). Combined analysis (nDNA and cpDNA) to infer the position of Coptosapelta and Luculia, and supertree construction based on rbcL, rps16, trnL-trnF and atpB-rbcL data. A new classification in two subfamilies, Cinchonoideae and Rubioideae". Systematic Geography of Plants. 76: 85–146.