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, Monday, 23 April 2018, we have 4,801 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 18,710 images for 2,446 species, of which 2,423 are native or naturalised and 23 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 |
| 15 Apr 2018 | Indigofera rhynchocarpa var. rhynchocarpa |
| 24 Mar 2018 | Hibiscus caesius |
| 22 Mar 2018 | Euphorbia mossambicensis |
| 19 Mar 2018 | Impatiens hydrogetonoides subsp. hydrogetonoides |
| 18 Mar 2018 | Mirabilis jalapa |
| 17 Mar 2018 | Tephrosia purpurea subsp. leptostachya |
| 11 Mar 2018 | Caperonia fistulosa |
| 10 Mar 2018 | Treculia africana subsp. africana var. africana |
| 01 Mar 2018 | Polysphaeria dischistocalyx |
| 28 Feb 2018 | Aeschynomene cristata var. cristata |
Mark Hyde |
Bart Wursten |
Petra Ballings |
Meg Coates Palgrave |
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mahyde(at)gmail.com |
ndundu(at)zol.co.zw |
ballings.petra(at)telenet.be |
megcp(at)zol.co.zw |
Monday, 23 April 2018
