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South Africa

Africa · Southern Africa

Total Species
1521
Threatened
3
CR + EN + VU
Population
59,308,690
Area
1,221,037 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Endangered 1
Vulnerable 1
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 1
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 1
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1113
Animalia 400
Chromista 6
Bacteria 1
Fungi 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in South Africa

Slender oat

Avena barbata

Not Evaluated

slender thistle

Carduus tenuiflorus

Near Threatened

slim-bristle sandbur

Cenchrus brownii

Not Evaluated

Small-Flowered Ticklegrass

Deschampsia cespitosa

Least Concern

small-flower evening-primrose

Oenothera indecora

Not Evaluated

Small-leaf spiderwort

Tradescantia fluminensis

Not Evaluated

small matweed

Guilleminea densa

Not Evaluated

Small Nightshade

Solanum triflorum

Not Evaluated

Smokebush

Buddleja madagascariensis

Least Concern

Smooth hawksbeard

Crepis capillaris

Least Concern

smooth heliotrope

Heliotropium curassavicum

Not Evaluated

Snowbush

Breynia disticha

Not Evaluated

Snowpeaks raspberry

Rubus niveus

Not Evaluated

Soapstone Pincushion

Leucospermum gerrardii

Endangered

Soft brown scale

Coccus hesperidum

Not Evaluated

Softseed wild petunia

Ruellia simplex

Data Deficient

soldier cone

Conus miles

Least Concern

song-of-India

Dracaena reflexa

Least Concern

Sour orange

Citrus aurantium

Not Evaluated

South American skullcap

Scutellaria racemosa

Least Concern

Southern mahogany

Eucalyptus botryoides

Near Threatened

Spanish broom

Spartium junceum

Not Evaluated

Spanish Dot

Antigastra catalaunalis

Not Evaluated

Spanish-needles

Bidens bipinnata

Not Evaluated

Spicy Conebush

Leucadendron tinctum

Least Concern

Spider

Urozelotes rusticus

Not Evaluated

Spiderwisp

Gynandropsis gynandra

Not Evaluated

Spiked bur grass

Tragus berteronianus

Not Evaluated

spiked water-milfoil

Myriophyllum spicatum

Least Concern

Spiny Bollworm

Earias biplaga

Not Evaluated

Spiny Cocklebur

Xanthium spinosum

Not Evaluated

Spiny fiddlewood

Citharexylum spinosum

Least Concern

Spiny sowthistle

Sonchus asper

Least Concern

spiny starfish

Marthasterias glacialis

Least Concern

Spitting Spider

Scytodes thoracica

Least Concern

spitting spiders

Scytodes fusca

Not Evaluated

Sponge gourd

Luffa aegyptiaca

Not Evaluated

Spoonleaf purple everlasting

Gamochaeta purpurea

Not Evaluated

Spreading alkali grass

Puccinellia distans

Least Concern

Spreading hedgeparsley

Torilis arvensis

Near Threatened

springbok

Antidorcas marsupialis

Least Concern

Spring Snowflake

Leucojum vernum

Not Evaluated

Springtail

Tomocerus minor

Not Evaluated

Springtail

Proisotoma minuta

Not Evaluated

Springtail

Brachystomella parvula

Not Evaluated

Staggerweed

Stachys arvensis

Vulnerable

Staph beetle

Gabronthus thermarum

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Philonthus quisquiliarius

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Philonthus varians

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Habrocerus capillaricornis

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Acrotona parvula

Least Concern

Staph beetle

Phacophallus pallidipennis

Not Evaluated

Staphylinid beetle

Lithocharis nigriceps

Least Concern

star-thistle

Centaurea calcitrapa

Extinct

St. Augustine grass

Stenotaphrum secundatum

Not Evaluated

Sticky snakeroot

Ageratina adenophora

Not Evaluated

Sticky Wattle

Acacia viscidula

Least Concern

Stiff Brome

Brachypodium distachyon

Not Evaluated

stink aster

Dittrichia graveolens

Not Evaluated

Stinking chamomile

Anthemis cotula

Near Threatened

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