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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

Moth

Grapholita molesta

Not Evaluated

Western flower thrips

Frankliniella occidentalis

Not Evaluated

Lesser pond sedge

Carex acutiformis

Vulnerable

Bohemian Knotweed

Reynoutria bohemica

Not Evaluated

Fiddle dock

Rumex pulcher

Not Evaluated

Garlic Snail

Oxychilus alliarius

Vulnerable

cellar glass snail

Oxychilus cellarius

Least Concern

Draparnaud's Glass Snail

Oxychilus draparnaudi

Not Evaluated

Reed mannagrass

Glyceria maxima

Least Concern

Mexican love grass

Eragrostis mexicana

Not Evaluated

Giant Freshwater Prawn

Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Least Concern

Bastard Scotch Thistle

Carduus nutans

Near Threatened

Latin American fleabane

Erigeron karvinskianus

Not Evaluated

Cuman Ragweed

Ambrosia psilostachya

Not Evaluated

Yellow Star-thistle

Centaurea solstitialis

Not Evaluated

Spanish-needles

Bidens bipinnata

Not Evaluated

Grey Goosefoot

Chenopodium opulifolium

Not Evaluated

Cabbage webworm

Hellula undalis

Not Evaluated

Potbellied helicellid

Cochlicella barbara

Critically Endangered

Lacy Crust Bryozoan

Membranipora membranacea

Not Evaluated

Cherry Slug Sawfly

Caliroa cerasi

Not Evaluated

Wild clary

Salvia verbenaca

Not Evaluated

Blackspot hornpoppy

Glaucium corniculatum

Not Evaluated

Pickerel-Weed

Pontederia cordata

Not Evaluated

Eastern Juniper

Juniperus virginiana

Not Evaluated

Tape grass

Vallisneria spiralis

Least Concern

Small Nightshade

Solanum triflorum

Not Evaluated

Kangaroo-apple

Solanum laciniatum

Not Evaluated

Jerusalem cherry

Solanum pseudocapsicum

Not Evaluated

Eastern Mousetail

Myosurus minimus

Vulnerable

American Hackberry

Celtis occidentalis

Least Concern

Parrotfeather

Myriophyllum aquaticum

Not Evaluated

wintergreen barberry

Berberis julianae

Not Evaluated

Jagged Chickweed

Holosteum umbellatum

Near Threatened

Annual pearlwort

Sagina apetala

Least Concern

proliferous pink

Petrorhagia prolifera

Near Threatened

Fourleaf manyseed

Polycarpon tetraphyllum

Not Evaluated

Hedgehog arion

Arion intermedius

Least Concern

Wild parsnip

Pastinaca sativa

Least Concern

Hairy Bramble

Rubus phoenicolasius

Not Evaluated

American Ash

Fraxinus americana

Not Evaluated

lesser earwig

Labia minor

Not Evaluated

European brown snail

Cornu aspersum

Not Evaluated

Hare's-tail

Lagurus ovatus

Not Evaluated

Awned Canary-grass

Phalaris paradoxa

Not Evaluated

common rivergrass

Scolochloa festucacea

Near Threatened

Threespike goosegrass

Eleusine tristachya

Not Evaluated

Sweetpotato whitefly

Bemisia tabaci

Not Evaluated

hyssop loosestrife

Lythrum hyssopifolia

Not Evaluated

Garden Pink-sorrel

Oxalis latifolia

Least Concern

lesser slippery moss snail

Cochlicopa lubricella

Data Deficient

European Giant Gardenslug

Limax maximus

Least Concern

contracted glass snail

Vitrea contracta

Least Concern

Mintweed

Salvia reflexa

Not Evaluated

crystal snail

Vitrea crystallina

Least Concern

Slender Burnished Brass, Golden Plusia

Thysanoplusia orichalcea

Not Evaluated

bald cypress

Taxodium distichum

Not Evaluated

dawn redwood

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Not Evaluated

Bulrush Cosmet

Limnaecia phragmitella

Near Threatened

German Wasp

Vespula germanica

Least Concern

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