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 Jonathan Timberlake 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.
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe	Sabonet	Although the Sabonet project has now finished, the website remains and contains much useful information, mostly in the form of downloadable PDF files. Here may be found checklists for Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique and many other items of interest from other African countries.
Zambia	Flora of Zambia	A further sister site to the Flora of Zimbabwe. This site is being compiled by Annette Willemen and Mike Bingham.
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	Plants of Southern Africa - an online checklist	This is a searchable database for information about the plants of Southern Africa.
South Africa	SIBIS (SANBI's Integrated Biodiversity Information System)	This site provides the following information for the 22,000+ species of plant to be found in South Africa. Threatened species information Distribution maps Area checklists General species details
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	Agricultural Geo-referenced Information System (AGIS): Weeds and invasive plants database	The site aims to provide information about weeds and invasive plants in South Africa with a view to understanding and managing such plants.
Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, S 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. Details of those published to date may be found on the site above. The NBI also produces a valuable journal, Bothalia and an occasional series of papers known as Strelitzia
Swaziland	Swaziland's Flora Database and Swaziland's Alien Plants Database	These sites provide descriptions, images and location information for the plant species occurring in 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. Now (3 January 2011) greatly expanded with a more detailed treatment of a greater number of species.
Angola	Flora of Angola online	This website was created and designed at SANBI based on data compiled from the book by E. Figueiredo & G.F. Smith (2008, Plants of Angola/Plantas de Angola) published as Strelitzia 22 by the South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
Central Africa	The Digitised 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. The digitisation work is being carried out at Meise (BR), the National Botanic Garden of Belgium.
Central Africa	Central African Plants: a photoguide	This website, which as at 30 December 2012 was still under construction, is one of three sites on African plants produced by the authors of the West African Plants photoguide.
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 good progress is being made towards completion. Much of the content is directly relevant to the Flora Zambesiaca area.
East Africa	East African Plants: a photoguide	This website, which as at 30 December 2012 was still under construction, is one of three sites on African plants produced by the authors of the West African Plants photoguide.
West Africa	West African Plants: a photo guide	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.
Equatorial Guinea	Flora of Equatorial Guinea	A project coordinated by the Real Jardín Botánico of Madrid, it provides information and describes progress in documenting the Flora of Equatorial Guinea. In Spanish.
Northern tropical Africa	Fleurs d'Afrique, Cirad, France	This site presents flower images of the main species found in northern tropical Africa, of the sahelian, sahelo-Saharan and sahelo-soudanian zones, from Senegal to the Horn of Africa.
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	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	Despite a very unmemorable and user-unfriendly URL, this site contains a lot of solid information on African plants. Primarily it is a searchable database. There is much useful information about nomenclature and synonyms, brief details about the ecology and description and sometimes a map of Africa showing distribution.