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, Saturday, 27 February 2021, we have 5,055 native or naturalised species in the database for Malawi. There are 25,336 images for 2,896 species, of which 2,860 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.
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 |
| 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 |
| 16 Dec 2020 | Wurmbea tenuis subsp. goetzei |
| 04 Dec 2020 | Cheilanthes multifida |
| 30 Nov 2020 | Fadogiella stigmatoloba |
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, 27 February 2021
