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, Sunday, 26 May 2019, we have 4,963 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 22,466 images for 2,736 species, of which 2,706 are native or naturalised and 30 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 |
| 17 May 2019 | Heteromorpha involucrata |
| 16 May 2019 | Plectranthus masukensis var. masukensis |
| 16 May 2019 | Chrysophyllum gorungosanum |
| 16 May 2019 | Indigofera goetzei |
| 15 May 2019 | Gerbera ambigua |
| 15 May 2019 | Tagetes minuta |
| 14 May 2019 | Ochna stolzii |
| 14 May 2019 | Spilanthes mauritiana |
| 13 May 2019 | Murdannia simplex |
| 13 May 2019 | Psychotria pumila var. pumila |
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 |
Sunday, 26 May 2019
