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Madagascar

Africa · Eastern Africa

Total Species
559
Threatened
4
CR + EN + VU
Population
27 691 019
Area
587 041 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Vulnerable 3
Near Threatened 2
Least Concern 178
Data Deficient 4
Not Evaluated 357
Extinct 6

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 529
Animalia 30

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Madagascar

Common Sunda Toad

Duttaphrynus melanostictus

Least Concern

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

Hemp-agrimony Plume

Adaina microdactyla

Vulnerable

Spiny Bollworm

Earias biplaga

Not Evaluated

cylindrical cone

Conus cylindraceus

Least Concern

Abalone

Haliotis unilateralis

Least Concern

Prostrate knotweed

Polygonum aviculare

Not Evaluated

small water-pepper

Persicaria minor

Least Concern

Dwarf Setaria

Setaria italica

Not Evaluated

Bristle Pigeon Grass

Setaria verticillata

Not Evaluated

Broomcorn

Sorghum bicolor

Not Evaluated

Lesser Love-Grass

Eragrostis minor

Not Evaluated

Stinkgrass

Eragrostis cilianensis

Not Evaluated

Bermudagrass

Cynodon dactylon

Least Concern

Dumb-Nettle

Galinsoga parviflora

Not Evaluated

Cat'S Ear

Hypochaeris radicata

Not Evaluated

Common Nipplewort

Lapsana communis

Least Concern

Spiny sowthistle

Sonchus asper

Least Concern

Herb of the cross

Verbena officinalis

Least Concern

Bedstraw

Galium aparine

Least Concern

Clasping Henbit

Lamium amplexicaule

Least Concern

common ramping-fumitory

Fumaria muralis

Not Evaluated

Linearleaf snapdragon

Misopates orontium

Least Concern

Coliseum-Ivy

Cymbalaria muralis

Not Evaluated

Common Vetch

Vicia sativa

Least Concern

Broom

Cytisus scoparius

Least Concern

Least Hop Clover

Trifolium dubium

Least Concern

Grass

Cannabis sativa

Not Evaluated

Lesser swinecress

Lepidium didymum

Not Evaluated

Least Pepperwort

Lepidium virginicum

Not Evaluated

Field mustard

Brassica rapa

Not Evaluated

Bittercress

Cardamine hirsuta

Least Concern

Bird'S-Eye Pearlwort

Sagina procumbens

Least Concern

Bracken

Pteridium aquilinum

Least Concern

Big quakinggrass

Briza maxima

Not Evaluated

Little quakinggrass

Briza minor

Not Evaluated

Latin American fleabane

Erigeron karvinskianus

Not Evaluated

Fleshy Yellow-sorrel

Oxalis tetraphylla

Not Evaluated

Angled Burr Cucumber

Sicyos angulatus

Not Evaluated

Jerusalem cherry

Solanum pseudocapsicum

Not Evaluated

Sticky chickweed

Cerastium glomeratum

Least Concern

Chilean evening primrose

Oenothera stricta

Not Evaluated

Garden Pink-sorrel

Oxalis latifolia

Least Concern

Ethiopian Rape

Brassica carinata

Not Evaluated

Curlytop Knotweed

Persicaria lapathifolia

Least Concern

Broad-Leaved Pondweed

Potamogeton nodosus

Near Threatened

Slimleaf bur ragweed

Ambrosia tenuifolia

Not Evaluated

rose evening-primrose

Oenothera rosea

Not Evaluated

Mung-bean

Vigna radiata

Not Evaluated

Australian waterbuttons

Cotula australis

Not Evaluated

magentaspreen

Chenopodium giganteum

Not Evaluated

Alligatorweed

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Not Evaluated

Water primrose

Ludwigia peploides

Not Evaluated

ilima

Sida cordifolia

Least Concern

Sesbania Pea

Sesbania bispinosa

Least Concern

Kariba weed

Salvinia molesta

Not Evaluated

Egyptian grass

Dactyloctenium aegyptium

Not Evaluated

Common St. Paul's wort

Sigesbeckia orientalis

Not Evaluated

Blowball

Taraxacum officinale

Not Evaluated

Butterweed

Erigeron canadensis

Not Evaluated

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