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, Wednesday, 1 April 2020, we have 2,874 native or naturalised species in the database for Botswana. There are 14,298 images for 1,581 species, of which 1,581 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 |
| 31 Mar 2020 | Trichodesma angustifolium |
| 31 Mar 2020 | Scabiosa columbaria |
| 20 Mar 2020 | Melanospermum foliosum |
| 19 Mar 2020 | Calostephane divaricata |
| 18 Mar 2020 | Cardiospermum corindum |
| 17 Mar 2020 | Coccinia sessilifolia |
| 17 Mar 2020 | Orbea lutea subsp. lutea |
| 17 Mar 2020 | Huernia verekeri var. verekeri |
| 14 Mar 2020 | Dicoma macrocephala |
| 06 Mar 2020 | Gisekia africana |
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 |
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
