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Congo (DRC)

Africa · Middle Africa

Total Species
548
Threatened
4
CR + EN + VU
Population
92.377.986
Area
2.344.858 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Endangered 1
Vulnerable 3
Near Threatened 4
Least Concern 80
Data Deficient 2
Not Evaluated 155
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 477
Animalia 68
Bacteria 3

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Congo (DRC)

Beaked Clothes

Tinea translucens

Not Evaluated

Maruca pod borer

Maruca vitrata

Not Evaluated

Butterfly tree

Bauhinia purpurea

Least Concern

Sickle senna

Senna tora

Not Evaluated

Java-bean

Senna obtusifolia

Least Concern

Emperor's candlesticks

Senna alata

Not Evaluated

Pride-of-barbados

Caesalpinia pulcherrima

Least Concern

Cucumber moth

Diaphania indica

Not Evaluated

Dark Mottled Willow

Spodoptera cilium

Not Evaluated

Spiny Bollworm

Earias biplaga

Not Evaluated

Vagrant China-mark

Diasemiopsis ramburialis

Not Evaluated

Arrocillo

Paspalum paniculatum

Not Evaluated

Yellow-underwing Pearl

Uresiphita gilvata

Not Evaluated

Man to man

Peperomia pellucida

Not Evaluated

Washerwoman

Alternanthera caracasana

Not Evaluated

Golden dewdrops

Duranta erecta

Least Concern

Costa Rican guava

Psidium friedrichsthalianum

Not Evaluated

Wax mallow

Malvaviscus arboreus

Not Evaluated

Grass webworm

Herpetogramma licarsisalis

Not Evaluated

scoparia-weed

Scoparia dulcis

Least Concern

Purple plague

Miconia calvescens

Least Concern

Lettered China-mark

Diasemia reticularis

Endangered

Earleaf acacia

Acacia auriculiformis

Least Concern

Pearl wattle

Acacia podalyriifolia

Least Concern

Rattleweed

Crotalaria retusa

Least Concern

Shakeshake

Crotalaria incana

Least Concern

garlicweed

Petiveria alliacea

Least Concern

Dixie ticktrefoil

Desmodium tortuosum

Least Concern

Crambid Moth

Duponchelia fovealis

Not Evaluated

Siamese cassia

Senna siamea

Not Evaluated

Coral tree

Erythrina poeppigiana

Least Concern

Apple blossom

Cassia javanica

Not Evaluated

Spanish Dot

Antigastra catalaunalis

Not Evaluated

Night jessamine

Cestrum nocturnum

Not Evaluated

crimson cestrum

Cestrum elegans

Least Concern

Garden-huckleberry

Solanum scabrum

Not Evaluated

parrot's-flower

Heliconia psittacorum

Least Concern

Scarlet spiderling

Boerhavia coccinea

Not Evaluated

Yellow trumpetbush

Tecoma stans

Least Concern

Beet Webworm

Spoladea recurvalis

Not Evaluated

Peregrina

Jatropha integerrima

Not Evaluated

Bellyache bush

Jatropha gossypiifolia

Not Evaluated

tropical smokebush

Euphorbia cotinifolia

Least Concern

Cassava

Manihot esculenta

Not Evaluated

Yorkshire Y

Cornutiplusia circumflexa

Not Evaluated

Tunbridge Wells Gem

Chrysodeixis acuta

Not Evaluated

Pinwheelflower

Tabernaemontana divaricata

Not Evaluated

pilipiliula

Chrysopogon aciculatus

Not Evaluated

Paraguayan starbur

Acanthospermum australe

Not Evaluated

Soft elephantsfoot

Elephantopus mollis

Not Evaluated

western cudweed

Gnaphalium polycaulon

Not Evaluated

Nodeweed

Synedrella nodiflora

Least Concern

sweet-sage

Lantana trifolia

Least Concern

Light-blue snakeweed

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Least Concern

Changeable velvetberry

Stachytarpheta mutabilis

Not Evaluated

Cayenne porterweed

Stachytarpheta cayennensis

Least Concern

Queen's-wreath

Petrea volubilis

Least Concern

Bay rum tree

Pimenta racemosa

Least Concern

West Indian-pink

Spigelia anthelmia

Least Concern

redhead

Hamelia patens

Least Concern

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