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, Tuesday, 22 September 2020, we have 5,034 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 24,857 images for 2,857 species, of which 2,822 are native or naturalised and 35 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 |
| 03 Sep 2020 | Hedythyrsus thamnoideus |
| 29 Aug 2020 | Cynanchum praecox |
| 29 Aug 2020 | Ceropegia papillata |
| 29 Aug 2020 | Disa longilabris |
| 19 Aug 2020 | Telosma africana |
| 14 Aug 2020 | Desmodium ospriostreblum |
| 08 Aug 2020 | Pycnosphaera buchananii |
| 16 Jul 2020 | Macledium sessiliflorum |
| 16 Jul 2020 | Ipomoea shirambensis |
| 10 Jul 2020 | Hedbergia abyssinica |
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 |
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
