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, Sunday, 22 September 2019, we have 5,005 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 23,360 images for 2,791 species, of which 2,759 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 |
| 19 Sep 2019 | Eustachys paspaloides |
| 18 Sep 2019 | Cayratia gracilis |
| 18 Sep 2019 | Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustifolia |
| 17 Sep 2019 | Lagenaria breviflora |
| 15 Sep 2019 | Disa baurii |
| 15 Sep 2019 | Crassula globularioides |
| 15 Sep 2019 | Moraea schimperi |
| 14 Sep 2019 | Diplolophium buchananii subsp. buchananii |
| 11 Sep 2019 | Lepidotrichilia volkensii |
| 07 Sep 2019 | Aerangis verdickii var. verdickii |
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 |
Sunday, 22 September 2019
