Sample image from the Malawi flora
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About the website
This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Malawi. This is one of 6 e-floras which cover the Flora Zambesiaca area in south-central Africa. Five countries are now covered, namely Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The 6th e-flora deals with the Caprivi Strip, which is part of Namibia.
The principal contributors to the site are Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Meg Coates Palgrave and Mark Hyde.
As of today, Friday, 30 October 2020, we have 5,038 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 24,970 images for 2,870 species, of which 2,834 are native or naturalised and 36 are purely cultivated.
The Site history page gives an overview of site development. There is also a Frequently Asked Questions page.
View recently edited pages
As a guide to where to look for new content, below are details of some of the most recently updated pages. Further recently updated species may be found on this page.
| Date | Species |
| 28 Oct 2020 | Ochna macrocalyx |
| 27 Oct 2020 | Acanthus ueleensis |
| 27 Oct 2020 | Tabernaemontana stapfiana |
| 27 Oct 2020 | Impatiens sylvicola |
| 16 Oct 2020 | Polystachya dendrobiiflora |
| 13 Oct 2020 | Neobolusia stolzii var. stolzii |
| 06 Oct 2020 | Asclepias palustris |
| 01 Oct 2020 | Gnidia fastigiata |
| 27 Sep 2020 | Berkheya bipinnatifida subsp. echinopsoides var. echinopsoides |
| 24 Sep 2020 | Holothrix tridactylites |
Mark Hyde |
Bart Wursten |
Petra Ballings |
Meg Coates Palgrave |
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mahyde(at)gmail.com |
btwursten(at)gmail.com |
ballings.petra(at)telenet.be |
megcp(at)zol.co.zw |
Friday, 30 October 2020
