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New book: Field Guide to the wetter (Zambian) miombo woodland

Miombo woodland

This two-volume field guide by Lari Merrett and Kaj Vollesen covers the wetter miombo woodland of Zambia and is based on field work undertaken in the Mutinondo Wilderness Area of northern Zambia.

This work comprises 1,022 pages and covers 1,634 species of plant. It is particularly rich in colour photographs. Although based on Zambia, it contains much of interest for other countries in the region. A review of the work may be downloaded from this page.

For further information download this flier or contact the author directly at larimerrett@gmail.com.

Sample image from the Zambia flora

Xyris erubescensOur current sample image is of Xyris erubescens. Click on the thumbnail image to see the full image or click on the species name to find out more.
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About the website

This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Zambia. This is a sister site to the Flora of Botswana, Caprivi, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe websites, which together cover the Flora Zambesiaca area.

The principal contributors to the site are the late Mike Bingham✝, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Mark Hyde and Meg Coates Palgrave.

As of today, Sunday, 1 October 2023, we have 6,895 native or naturalised species in the database for Zambia. There are 28,936 images for 3,469 species, of which 3,411 are native or naturalised and 58 are purely cultivated.

The Site history page gives details of the latest additions to the site. There is also a Frequently Asked Questions page.

Flora Zambesiaca

FZ volumes

The Flora Zambesiaca project has been the principal source of information for our project, particularly the keys, descriptions and images. It has been an invaluable tool to enable us to identify the many plant specimens we have recorded and collected and has been one of the most important sources to teach us the botanical skills we have acquired.

Further information about Flora Zambesiaca can be found at this link.

The picture shows the much-used and now dog-eared volumes which accompany us on our field trips.

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.

DateSpecies
23 Aug 2023 Neojeffreya decurrens
18 Aug 2023 Indigastrum costatum subsp. macrum
03 Aug 2023 Otiophora villicaulis var. villicaulis
02 Aug 2023 Biophytum nyikense
29 Jul 2023 Pleiotaxis argentea
29 Jul 2023 Pseudocalyx saccatus
29 Jul 2023 Solanum giganteum
29 Jul 2023 Psychotria spithamea
29 Jul 2023 Phytolacca dodecandra
27 Jul 2023 Helichrysum mechowianum var. ceres

Mike Bingham✝   Annette Willemen   Nicholas Wightman   Bart Wursten   Petra Ballings   Mark Hyde   Meg Coates Palgrave
younga(at)ukzn.ac.za   annettewillemen(at)gmail.com   zambeziflora(at)gmail.com   btwursten(at)gmail.com   ballings.petra(at)telenet.be   mahyde(at)gmail.com   megcp(at)zol.co.zw

Sunday, 1 October 2023


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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-23

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2023). Flora of Zambia: Home page.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/index.php, retrieved 1 October 2023

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