Online Resources for Plant Identification in Africa
Just a short list, thought it would be useful to have it here, please add a comment if I missed anything!
WORLD
JSTOR Global Plants http://plants.jstor.org
AFRICA
African Plants - a photo guide http://www.africanplants.senckenberg.de
African Plant Database http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php?langue=an
NORTH AFRICA / MACARONESIA
Plant Biodiversity of South-Western Morocco https://www.teline.fr/en
Plants of Southern Morocco http://plantsofsouthernmorocco.biota-africa.net/
Flore du Maroc http://www.floramaroccana.fr/
Sahara Nature http://www.sahara-nature.com/flore_sahara.php
Flora del Sahara http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/sahara1.htm
Flore du Maghreb http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/flore/html/index.html
Flora de Canarias http://www.floradecanarias.com/
Madeira Checklist http://www4.uma.pt/gbm/checklist/lista_flora.php
North Africa Trees https://www.northafricatrees.org/en/
WEST AFRICA
West African Plants - a photo guide http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de
FWTA eBook https://archive.org/details/FloraOfWestTropi00hutc
Fakara Plants http://www.jircas.affrc.go.jp/project/africa_dojo/FakaraPlants/Fakara_Plants_home.html
Les Poaceae du Niger http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-895415
Les Poaceae de Côte d'Ivoire http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-895418
Flore de la Côte d'Ivoire https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=boi-001%3A2002%3A58#4, https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=boi-001%3A2001%3A57#4
Flore analytique du Bénin https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/347966
CENTRAL AFRICA
Central African Plants - a photo guide http://www.centralafricanplants.senckenberg.de
Digital Flora of Central Africa http://www.br.fgov.be/RESEARCH/DATABASES/FOCA/index.php?la=fr/
Flore d’Afrique Centrale http://floreafriquecentrale.org/
Flore d'Afrique Centrale (pdfs) https://www.floredafriquecentrale.be/#/en/fac
Central African Orchid Database http://www.orchid-africa.net/
Copper Flora (Katanga) www.copperflora.org
Flore illustrée du Tchad https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334113080
NORTH EAST / EAST AFRICA
Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas https://goo.gl/6YjeM5
East African Plants - a photo guide http://www.eastafricanplants.senckenberg.de
Kenya Natural History Guide http://www.ngkenya.com/flora/plants.html
Field guide to the moist forest trees of Tanzania https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344254354
SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA
Flora of Zimbabwe https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw
Flora of Botswana https://www.botswanaflora.com/
Flora of Malawi https://www.malawiflora.com
Flora of Zambia https://www.zambiaflora.com/
Flora of Mozambique https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/
Flora Zambesiaca http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html
Plants of the Nyika Plateau
https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sabonet-report-no-31-plants-nyika-plateau-part-1.pdf
https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sabonet-report-no-31-plants-nyika-plateau-part-2.pdf
https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sabonet-report-no-31-plants-nyika-plateau-part-3.pdf
https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sabonet-report-no-31-plants-nyika-plateau-part-4.pdf
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Photo Guide to Plants of Southern Africa http://www.southernafricanplants.net
PlantZAfrica http://pza.sanbi.org/
Red List of South African Plants http://redlist.sanbi.org/
CasaBio https://casabio.org/
Kyffhäuser Flora http://www.kyffhauser.co.za/flora.htm
Swaziland's Flora Database http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/index.asp
Flora of Caprivi https://www.capriviflora.com/
Plants of Southern Africa http://newposa.sanbi.org/sanbi/flora
Alien Invasive Plants List for South Africa https://goo.gl/6qeUmN
Dendrological Society of South Africa http://www.dendro.co.za/
Botanical Society of South Africa http://www.botanicalsociety.org.za
Helichrysums of Southern Africa https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/helichrysum/key/Helichrysum/Media/Html/home.htm
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN
Madagascar Catalogue http://www.tropicos.org/Project/Madagascar
Seychelles Plant Gallery http://seychellesplantgallery.com
Comments
That's very useful, many thanks Marco!
Another one for Southern Africa - Swaziland's Flora
http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/index.asp
Thank you @katebraunsd ! Didn't know that one, added it to the list.
What is the point of a project for a clearly defined area like a continent? Searching can achieve the same thing https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?iconic_taxa=Plantae&place_id=97392
@andrewgillespie one point might be to have the possibilty for this post associated with the project...
A great list. Why not include www.capriviflora.com ? Thanks
also useful is http://newposa.sanbi.org/sanbi/Explore
and some more general stuff
https://www.environment.co.za/weeds-invaders-alien-vegetation/alien-invasive-plants-list-for-south-africa.html
http://www.botanicalsociety.org.za/SitePages/Home.aspx
http://www.dendro.co.za
Many thanks for your suggestions!
A very big thank you to the curators of African flora for adding some of my observations to the group, I really appreciate your job
Thank y'all
Please add for Africa, seychellesplantgallery.com
Thank you!
https://www.capriviflora.com/index.php could still be added to the list
Thanks
It's listed in Southern Africa, roughly following the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (https://web.archive.org/web/20160125135239/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/TDWG_geo2.pdf).
Is there a reason (a glitch) why the map includes many obs beyond Africa?
The fourth one I checked originally had a location in Africa, which was corrected to Europe - but it is still trapped in the Africa project.
I believe the reason is exactly that these observations once were located in Africa. Maybe the project should be converted to a collection project, but I am not completely sure what other implications that would have.
Maybe @jeanphilippeb can find us a way to correct the 'Out of Africa' ones?
Having just added this - I see the observer has to manually add to the project.
And has a gear icon to click for 'Remove from this project'
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149894891
I would be happy to work across the map - with a copypasta - if you wish?
(I do hate untidy distribution maps ...
I read a bit more about the project types and I think it is perfectly fine to convert to "collection project", then there should not be any observations included anymore that don't fit the criteria. I will do that in a few days if there are no objections.
@marcoschmidtffm and @dianastuder why not take control of this project https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/wild-and-naturalised-plants-of-africa
and also encourage local country projects as well ?
Yes, I could help removing observations that are out of Africa.
Conversion to a collection project (if it can match your needs) would be better, for fixing this issue and for avoiding to add manually future observations (and for sparing server ressources). But you would not be able to avoid inclusion of "opted-out" observations, as there is no filter for them. I don't know if this would be an issue for this project.
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