Geographical links

Countries and/or regions	Link	Comment
Botswana, Caprivi Strip, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe	Flora Zambesiaca web site	Flora Zambesiaca is the primary flora of Zimbabwe, together with 4 other countries, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Work has been going on since the 1950s and a substantial part of the flora has been covered. It is currently prepared under the editorship of Dr Benoit Loeuille at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Without the primary taxonomic work being undertaken by this project, our website would have been extremely difficult to produce. Although Flora Zambesiaca appears primarily in hard copy form, a website has been created which consists of a searchable database of species with additional information extracted from the currently published volumes. Details of the volumes currently in print, together with details of other works on the flora of Africa, may be found on the Kew Books website.
Botswana	Flora of Botswana	The following websites, from Botswana to Zimbabwe, all draw data from our online flora database, which contains information about the flora of these southern and central African countries.
Burundi	Flora of Burundi
Caprivi (Namibia)	Flora of Caprivi
Democratic Republic of Congo	Flora of Democratic Republic of Congo
Malawi	Flora of Malawi
Mozambique	Flora of Mozambique
Rwanda	Flora of Rwanda
Zambia	Flora of Zambia
Zimbabwe	Flora of Zimbabwe
South Africa	South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)	This is the main page for SANBI from which there are many links to sites relevant to our flora. A number of these are described separately below. It should be noted that the term 'Southern Africa' as used by SANBI in its websites and publications does not generally include Zimbabwe.
South Africa	Southern African plant names and floristic details from the South African National Biodiversity Institute.	Although incomplete at the time of updating this page (13 September 2024) this is a searchable database for information about the plants of Southern Africa. Only Botswana and Caprivi in our area is covered.
South Africa	PlantZAfrica	Described as "The site for information about plants native to southern Africa and related topics.". The site is one of the group of sites created by SANBI.
South Africa	Biodiversity Explorer: the web of life in Southern Africa	Produced by Cape Town museums, this well-illustrated site is devoted to showing and explaining the diversity, biology and interactions of life in southern Africa (south of the Kuneni and Zambezi rivers).
South Africa	Tree SA: Your guide to South African trees	An interesting website created by David Becking. The purpose of this site is "to provide interested persons with details that, due to space restraints, are not all available collectively in text books or on all websites at the moment".
South Africa	South African Journal of Botany	Back numbers of this journal can be obtained on this website.
South Africa (primarily)	Casabio	A citizen science website, for recording animals and plants, aimed primarily at South Africa, but available for any user in the rest of the world.
Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland	Flora of Southern Africa (FSA)	Although the area covered by this work stops at the Limpopo, these volumes contain much of interest and relevance to Zimbabwe plants. These do not generally appear to be online, but volume 1 is available on the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Eswatini	Eswatini's Flora Database and Alien Plants Database	These sites provide descriptions, images and location information for the plant species occurring in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland).
Namibia	Namibian Biodiversity Database	The Namibian Biodiversity Database aims to increase the availability of information about Namibian biodiversity. It covers a wide range of living organisms and not just plants. The web site contains a searchable database of species together with pages on specific aspects such as aliens and the Succulent Karroo ecosystem.
Namibia	Kyffhäuser	Information about the Farm Kyffhäuser, Maltahöhe District, Namibia. Contains plant photographs and other details of this arid area.
Central Africa	The Flora of Central Africa	Central Africa comprises the countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. On this site may be found in digitised form all the published volumes of the Flore D'Afrique Centrale. Work on that flora commenced in 1948 and to date c. 6,000 species have been covered.
Central Africa	Central African Plants: a photoguide	This website is one of three sites on African plants produced by the authors of the West African Plants photoguide. See the East African and West African sites below.
East Africa	Flora of Tropical East Africa	This Flora deals with the 12,500 plant species occurring wild in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Work began in 1949 and the project was completed in 2012. Much of the content is directly relevant to the Flora Zambesiaca area. Much of the content is freely available on POWO.
East Africa	East African Plants: a photoguide	This website covers East African plants.
West Africa	West African Plants: a photoguide	An interesting and rapidly growing site, sponsored by the Frankfurt Museum amongst others, with which we have reciprocal links from and to each of our species pages.
Northern tropical Africa	Fleurs d'Afrique, Cirad, France	This site presents flower images of some species found in Africa and Europe.
Madagascar	Catalogue of Vascular Plants of Madagascar	This remarkable web site is an online flora of Madagascar. It provides the taxonomic literature and specimen base for each taxon and includes numerous images. In many ways, this is a model of what we would like to achieve with our site.
Africa	Ferns of Africa	This site, which is being created by our very own Petra Ballings, aims to provide information about the ferns of the whole African continent.
Africa	Jstor (formerly Aluka)	This is one of the best websites on African plants. It makes available a great deal of content which would otherwise be inaccessible to people in Africa itself. This site has now extended beyond Africa and aims to cover the world's flora.
Africa	African Plants Database	This site which is primarily a searchable database.contains much solid information on African plants, specifically about nomenclature and synonyms, details of the ecology and description and maps of Africa showing distribution.
Worldwide	Plants Of the World Online	A detailed treatment of the world's plants containing much useful information.