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, 20 November 2018, we have 4,947 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 20,686 images for 2,611 species, of which 2,587 are native or naturalised and 24 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 |
| 12 Nov 2018 | Hippocratea volkensii |
| 12 Nov 2018 | Argemone mexicana |
| 10 Nov 2018 | Mostuea brunonis var. brunonis |
| 10 Nov 2018 | Hippocratea goetzei |
| 09 Nov 2018 | Merremia quinquefolia |
| 09 Nov 2018 | Ipomoea wightii var. wightii |
| 08 Nov 2018 | Psydrax whitei |
| 08 Nov 2018 | Sebaea leiostyla |
| 08 Nov 2018 | Nidorella spartioides |
| 07 Nov 2018 | Bersama abyssinica subsp. engleriana |
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, 20 November 2018
