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Australia

Oceania · Australia and New Zealand

Total Species
1988
Threatened
87
CR + EN + VU
Population
25,499,884
Area
7,692,024 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 25
Endangered 33
Vulnerable 29
Near Threatened 59
Least Concern 609
Data Deficient 15
Not Evaluated 1178
Extinct 22

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1801
Animalia 176
Chromista 10
Fungi 1

Featured Species

All Species in Australia

Fivestamen chickweed

Cerastium semidecandrum

Least Concern

Sticky chickweed

Cerastium glomeratum

Least Concern

European chickweed

Cerastium pumilum

Least Concern

Italian stone pine

Pinus pinea

Least Concern

Fourleaf manyseed

Polycarpon tetraphyllum

Not Evaluated

Blue Iris

Iris spuria

Vulnerable

Old-man-in-the-spring

Senecio vulgaris

Not Evaluated

Moth Mullein

Verbascum blattaria

Near Threatened

Rose-of-Sharon

Hypericum calycinum

Not Evaluated

St. Peter's-wort

Hypericum tetrapterum

Least Concern

Edging Lobelia

Lobelia erinus

Not Evaluated

Paper mulberry

Broussonetia papyrifera

Least Concern

Eastern Poison Ivy

Toxicodendron radicans

Not Evaluated

Peruvian peppertree

Schinus molle

Least Concern

Buff tailed bumblebee

Bombus terrestris

Least Concern

Chinese Honeysuckle

Lonicera japonica

Not Evaluated

Hairy Bramble

Rubus phoenicolasius

Not Evaluated

Briar Rose

Rosa rubiginosa

Least Concern

Japanese Cherry

Prunus serrulata

Not Evaluated

Spreading Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster divaricatus

Not Evaluated

Chinese tallow

Triadica sebifera

Not Evaluated

Bristleleaf bulrush

Isolepis setacea

Endangered

Azalea leafminer

Caloptilia azaleella

Not Evaluated

Chilean gunnera

Gunnera tinctoria

Not Evaluated

Sugarcane

Saccharum officinarum

Not Evaluated

Dallisgrass

Paspalum dilatatum

Not Evaluated

Hare's-tail

Lagurus ovatus

Not Evaluated

Awned Canary-grass

Phalaris paradoxa

Not Evaluated

Mediterranean Hair-grass

Rostraria cristata

Not Evaluated

Billion-Dollar Grass

Echinochloa frumentacea

Not Evaluated

Wimmera ryegrass

Lolium rigidum

Not Evaluated

Waxy mannagrass

Glyceria declinata

Vulnerable

Mediterranean brome

Bromus lanceolatus

Not Evaluated

Threespike goosegrass

Eleusine tristachya

Not Evaluated

slender thistle

Carduus tenuiflorus

Near Threatened

Italian plumeless thistle

Carduus pycnocephalus

Not Evaluated

Roman Chamomile

Chamaemelum nobile

Not Evaluated

Baccharis

Baccharis halimifolia

Not Evaluated

Clownfish

Amphiprion ocellaris

Least Concern

Eleven-O'Clock

Portulaca grandiflora

Not Evaluated

Bird'S-Eye Gilia

Gilia tricolor

Not Evaluated

Corn Mignonette

Reseda phyteuma

Not Evaluated

Coconut palm

Cocos nucifera

Not Evaluated

Carolina fanwort

Cabomba caroliniana

Not Evaluated

Hampshire Purslane

Ludwigia palustris

Not Evaluated

Chilean evening primrose

Oenothera stricta

Not Evaluated

European rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Near Threatened

Garden Pink-sorrel

Oxalis latifolia

Least Concern

Guava

Psidium guajava

Not Evaluated

Java plum

Syzygium cumini

Least Concern

white silk cottontree

Ceiba pentandra

Least Concern

Colocynth

Citrullus colocynthis

Not Evaluated

Jew's-mallow

Corchorus olitorius

Not Evaluated

Yellow monkswort

Nonea lutea

Not Evaluated

red kangaroo

Macropus rufus

Least Concern

rough corn bedstraw, corn cleavers

Galium tricornutum

Critically Endangered

custard-apple

Annona squamosa

Not Evaluated

Sweetpotato

Ipomoea batatas

Not Evaluated

Mintweed

Salvia reflexa

Not Evaluated

Red Fox

Vulpes vulpes

Least Concern

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