Sample image from the Botswana flora
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About the website
This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Botswana. 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, 20 September 2020, we have 2,872 native or naturalised species in the database for Botswana. There are 14,482 images for 1,593 species, of which 1,593 are native or naturalised and 0 are purely cultivated.
The Site history page gives details of the latest additions to the site. 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 |
| 13 Sep 2020 | Artemisiopsis villosa |
| 04 Sep 2020 | Cadaba termitaria |
| 02 Sep 2020 | Acacia erioloba |
| 29 Aug 2020 | Bergia polyantha |
| 08 Aug 2020 | Pycnosphaera buchananii |
| 04 Jul 2020 | Cyperus iria |
| 04 Jul 2020 | Distephanus divaricatus |
| 27 Jun 2020 | Dicliptera decorticans |
| 13 Jun 2020 | Azanza garckeana |
| 11 Jun 2020 | Pupalia lappacea var. velutina |
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, 20 September 2020
