
African Plant Database
By name
TA = Tropical Africa Area (EPFAT Area, country-based, south of the Sahara, complementary to the following)
SA = Southern Africa Area (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland)
NA = North Africa (Mauritania, Morocco, Canary Isl., Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Madeira)
MA = Madagascar (Malagasy Republic)
Query is performed on the complete name, including authors. Example of queries :
- Combretum
- Combretum molle
- %R.Br. ex G.Don
By country
Distribution and biology data available only for published families in the "Tropical African Flowering Plants".
Recents
Show the last modified and created names in the database on the selected period.
The database currently comprises 192690 names of african plants with their nomenclatural statuts. Data capture, edition and broadcast are the product of a
collaboration between the South African National Biodiversity Institute,
the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève,
Tela Botanica and the Missouri Botanical Garden
For more information


