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, Saturday, 19 October 2019, we have 5,017 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 23,617 images for 2,803 species, of which 2,771 are native or naturalised and 32 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 |
| 13 Oct 2019 | Spermacoce subvulgata var. subvulgata |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Hesperantha petitiana |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Fadogia triphylla var. triphylla |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Periploca linearifolia |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Agathisanthemum globosum |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Psidium guajava |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Pellaea pectiniformis |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Lippia javanica |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Psychotria mahonii |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Richardia brasiliensis |
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 |
Saturday, 19 October 2019
