Caprivi Recording Field Trip
In January - February 2018 Petra Ballings and Bart Wursten spent 2 full weeks in the Caprivi area of Namibia. The purpose was to record and photograph as many species as possible in as many different Quarter Degree Squares as possible.
A total of 1902 records were made during this period, covering about 460 taxa.
Most of these records are now online while some still need further confirmation on ID.
Nearly 4000 photographs were taken and are in the process of being made available online.
Prior to the trip the National Botanic Research Institute in Windhoek was visited and through data, kindly made available by the Institute staff, as well as taxa recorded during the trip, the total number of taxa in our database for the Caprivi flora has risen from 889 to 1,244.
As a result of this first major work both the Caprivi Checklist as well as the distribution coverage have become much more comprehensive.
Sample image from the Caprivi flora
 | Our current sample image is of Melhania forbesii. Click on the thumbnail image to see the full image or click on the species name to find out more. Reload the page to see further images of Caprivi plants. |
About the website
This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Caprivi, sometimes known as the Caprivi Strip, which is part of Namibia. 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 together with this e-flora about the Caprivi Strip.
The principal contributors to the site are Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Meg Coates Palgrave and Mark Hyde.
As of today, Sunday, 19 September 2021, we have 1,252 native or naturalised species in the database for Caprivi. There are 9,407 images for 883 species, of which 881 are native or naturalised and 2 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
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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.
| Date | Species |
| 24 May 2021 | Ceropegia arenarioides |
| 06 Oct 2020 | Baissea wulfhorstii |
| 29 Aug 2020 | Bergia polyantha |
| 08 Jun 2020 | Lobelia angolensis |
| 18 Mar 2020 | Cardiospermum corindum |
| 06 Jan 2020 | Combretum zeyheri |
| 06 Jan 2020 | Strychnos cocculoides |
| 06 Jan 2020 | Philenoptera nelsii |
| 06 Jan 2020 | Kigelia africana |
| 03 Aug 2019 | Eragrostis cylindriflora |
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, 19 September 2021
