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Brazil

South America · South America

Total Species
4332
Threatened
122
CR + EN + VU
Population
212 559 409
Area
8 515 767 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 15
Endangered 46
Vulnerable 61
Near Threatened 51
Least Concern 703
Data Deficient 43
Not Evaluated 1841
Extinct 8

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 2837
Chromista 638
Fungi 463
Protozoa 221
Animalia 171
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Brazil

Largeleaf maidenhair

Adiantum macrophyllum

Not Evaluated

Wild Potato Vine

Ipomoea tiliacea

Least Concern

Red algae

Acanthophora spicifera

Not Evaluated

cow-tongue fern

Campyloneurum phyllitidis

Not Evaluated

Isopterygium Moss

Isopterygium tenerum

Not Evaluated

Streamside Swordfern

Nephrolepis rivularis

Not Evaluated

golden shrimp-plant

Pachystachys lutea

Not Evaluated

mountain Prescott orchid

Prescottia stachyodes

Least Concern

Herzog's Pocket-moss

Fissidens crispus

Not Evaluated

Incised halberd fern

Tectaria incisa

Not Evaluated

Pinklady

Heterotis rotundifolia

Least Concern

Redblotch Tufted Orchid

Jacquiniella globosa

Not Evaluated

laurel-leaf soldierbush

Myriopus maculatus

Least Concern

Leafless Beaked Ladiestresses

Sacoila lanceolata

Not Evaluated

Milo's fissidens moss

Fissidens curvatus

Not Evaluated

Reticulate viperina

Zornia reticulata

Least Concern

Mouse barley

Hordeum murinum

Least Concern

Sicks Scaphyglottis

Scaphyglottis sickii

Least Concern

Pencilflower

Stylosanthes scabra

Least Concern

Red leucaena

Leucaena diversifolia

Least Concern

Fivefingers

Syngonium angustatum

Not Evaluated

round-leaf cassia

Chamaecrista rotundifolia

Least Concern

Silk tree

Albizia niopoides

Not Evaluated

Viscid pencil-flower

Stylosanthes viscosa

Least Concern

West Indian fimbry

Fimbristylis ferruginea

Least Concern

Scarlet passionflower

Passiflora coccinea

Least Concern

garlicvine

Bignonia aequinoctialis

Least Concern

Hairy Plum

Hirtella triandra

Least Concern

Spurgecreeper

Dalechampia scandens

Least Concern

Flowering banana

Musa ornata

Least Concern

Water spangles

Salvinia minima

Not Evaluated

Jamaican Cherry Fig

Ficus americana

Not Evaluated

Eggers' nutrush

Scleria eggersiana

Not Evaluated

Netted Nutrush

Scleria reticularis

Least Concern

Quill beaksedge

Rhynchospora tenuis

Least Concern

elegant spike-rush

Eleocharis elegans

Least Concern

foothill flat sedge

Cyperus amabilis

Least Concern

Tropical nutrush

Scleria microcarpa

Least Concern

Uniola flatsedge

Cyperus unioloides

Least Concern

Woodrush flatsedge

Cyperus entrerianus

Data Deficient

Slimflower lovegrass

Eragrostis gangetica

Least Concern

Perfumed passionflower

Passiflora vitifolia

Least Concern

Shaggy Parasol

Chlorophyllum rhacodes

Least Concern

Spiny holdback

Tara spinosa

Not Evaluated

West Indian Treefern

Cyathea arborea

Not Evaluated

rose-of-Venezuela

Brownea grandiceps

Least Concern

mule-ear orchid

Trichocentrum fuscum

Not Evaluated

Small lobster claw

Heliconia stricta

Least Concern

Longleaf peppertree

Schinus longifolia

Least Concern

gingerbush

Tetradenia riparia

Least Concern

Mung-bean

Vigna radiata

Not Evaluated

Rattlesnake plant

Calathea crotalifera

Not Evaluated

Striped Phragmipedium

Phragmipedium vittatum

Least Concern

Threeleaf Halberd Fern

Tectaria trifoliata

Near Threatened

Daltonia moss

Daltonia splachnoides

Not Evaluated

Myrtle

Corymbia torelliana

Least Concern

Wood decay

Crustodontia chrysocreas

Not Evaluated

Thin Leafed Sobralia

Sobralia stenophylla

Least Concern

Green antelope orchid

Dendrobium antennatum

Least Concern

narrow-leaf bottlebrush

Callistemon linearis

Not Evaluated

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