Sample image from the Malawi flora
 | Our current sample image is of Diospyros abyssinica subsp. abyssinica. Click on the thumbnail image to see the full image or click on the species name to find out more. Reload the page to see further images of Malawian plants. |
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, 15 May 2021, we have 5,056 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 25,454 images for 2,911 species, of which 2,875 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.
Flora Zambesiaca
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The Flora Zambesiaca project has been the principal source of information for our project, particularly the keys, descriptions and images. It has been an invaluable tool to enable us to identify the many plant specimens we have recorded and collected and has been one of the most important sources to teach us the botanical skills we have acquired. Further information about Flora Zambesiaca can be found at this link. The picture shows the much-used and now dog-eared volumes which accompany us on our field trips. |
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 |
| 09 Mar 2021 | Habenaria galactantha |
| 02 Mar 2021 | Searsia pyroides var. gracilis |
| 27 Feb 2021 | Humularia descampsii var. abercornensis |
| 25 Feb 2021 | Thesium goetzeanum |
| 05 Jan 2021 | Pleurolobus salicifolius var. salicifolius |
| 04 Jan 2021 | Ceropegia stenoloba var. schliebenii |
| 03 Jan 2021 | Lactuca calophylla |
| 02 Jan 2021 | Lippia plicata |
| 22 Dec 2020 | Schizocarphus nervosus |
| 18 Dec 2020 | Costus macranthus |
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, 15 May 2021
