Garden Pink-sorrel vs Lang's Red Colobus

Oxalis latifolia compared with Piliocolobus langi

Key Differences

• Garden Pink-sorrel is Least Concern while Lang's Red Colobus is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Garden Pink-sorrel	Lang's Red Colobus
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Oxalidales (Oxalidales)	Primates (Primates)
Family	Oxalidaceae	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)
Genus	Oxalis	Piliocolobus
Species	Oxalis latifolia	Piliocolobus langi

Conservation Status

Garden Pink-sorrel

LC — Least Concern

Lang's Red Colobus

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Garden Pink-sorrel	Lang's Red Colobus
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Garden Pink-sorrel

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including flooded grasslands and savannas, deserts and xeric shrublands, and tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, among 6 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.

Range

Widely distributed across Africa (11 countries), Asia (6 countries), Europe (13 countries), North America (4 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Australia), and South America (4 countries).

Lang's Red Colobus

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.