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Congo (DRC)

Africa · Middle Africa

Total Species
548
Threatened
9
CR + EN + VU
Population
92377986
Area
2344858 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Endangered 4
Vulnerable 5
Near Threatened 6
Least Concern 143
Data Deficient 7
Not Evaluated 372
Extinct 2

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 477
Animalia 68
Bacteria 3

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Congo (DRC)

Woman's tongue

Albizia lebbeck

Not Evaluated

Purple granadilla

Passiflora edulis

Not Evaluated

Centuryplant

Agave americana

Least Concern

Apple Of Peru

Nicandra physalodes

Not Evaluated

Niger

Guizotia abyssinica

Not Evaluated

Annual Cosmos

Cosmos bipinnatus

Not Evaluated

Pink bollworm

Pectinophora gossypiella

Not Evaluated

Brown house moth

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Least Concern

Dumb-Nettle

Galinsoga parviflora

Not Evaluated

Burweed

Xanthium strumarium

Not Evaluated

Hemp-agrimony Plume

Adaina microdactyla

Vulnerable

Corn

Zea mays

Not Evaluated

Job's tears

Coix lacryma-jobi

Least Concern

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

Potato tuber moth

Phthorimaea operculella

Not Evaluated

turnip moth

Agrotis segetum

Least Concern

Field mustard

Brassica rapa

Not Evaluated

Cabbage

Brassica oleracea

Not Evaluated

Teff

Eragrostis tef

Not Evaluated

Rape

Brassica napus

Not Evaluated

Edible Rocket

Eruca vesicaria

Not Evaluated

Egyptian Bollworm

Earias insulana

Not Evaluated

Brown mustard

Brassica juncea

Not Evaluated

Cultivated radish

Raphanus sativus

Not Evaluated

Garden Nasturtium

Tropaeolum majus

Not Evaluated

Lesser swinecress

Lepidium didymum

Not Evaluated

Corn spurry

Spergula arvensis

Least Concern

Indian shot

Canna indica

Not Evaluated

Uruguayan pampas grass

Cortaderia selloana

Not Evaluated

Mulberry

Morus alba

Not Evaluated

Grass

Cannabis sativa

Not Evaluated

Black Elder

Sambucus nigra

Least Concern

Downy Ground-Cherry

Physalis pubescens

Not Evaluated

Barbary fig

Opuntia ficus-indica

Not Evaluated

Fen Sedge

Cladium mariscus

Endangered

Radford's Flame Shoulder

Ochropleura leucogaster

Not Evaluated

vestal

Rhodometra sacraria

Not Evaluated

Latin American fleabane

Erigeron karvinskianus

Not Evaluated

Peruvian groundcherry

Physalis peruviana

Not Evaluated

Cutleaf groundcherry

Physalis angulata

Least Concern

Aleppo Grass

Sorghum halepense

Not Evaluated

Oil palm

Elaeis guineensis

Not Evaluated

Red Buffalo-bur

Solanum sisymbriifolium

Least Concern

Guernsey Pigweed

Amaranthus blitum

Least Concern

Broomcorn

Sorghum bicolor

Not Evaluated

Upland cotton

Gossypium hirsutum

Vulnerable

Swamp morning-glory

Ipomoea aquatica

Least Concern

Pickerel-Weed

Pontederia cordata

Not Evaluated

Soapberry

Sapindus saponaria

Not Evaluated

Moth

Monopis monachella

Near Threatened

Jerusalem thorn

Parkinsonia aculeata

Least Concern

Jerusalem cherry

Solanum pseudocapsicum

Not Evaluated

Irish Potato

Solanum tuberosum

Not Evaluated

Chinese Honeysuckle

Lonicera japonica

Not Evaluated

Eggplant

Solanum melongena

Not Evaluated

Bell Pepper

Capsicum annuum

Not Evaluated

Dallisgrass

Paspalum dilatatum

Not Evaluated

Galinsoga

Galinsoga quadriradiata

Not Evaluated

Eleven-O'Clock

Portulaca grandiflora

Not Evaluated

Cultivated tobacco

Nicotiana tabacum

Not Evaluated

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