Sri Lanka
Asia · Southern Asia
Conservation Status Overview
Species by Taxonomic Group
Featured Species
Nok-na-mu
Cinnamomum camphora
Rock Pigeon
Columba livia
black rat
Rattus rattus
house mouse
Mus musculus
Japanese White-eye
Zosterops japonicus
American Bull Frog
Lithobates catesbeianus
Brown Rat
Rattus norvegicus
Indian Cobra
Naja naja
Ecoregions
Sri Lanka lowland rain forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Indomalaya
Sri Lanka montane rain forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests · Indomalaya
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests · Indomalaya
Deccan thorn scrub forests
Deserts & Xeric Shrublands · Indomalaya
All Species in Sri Lanka
breadfruit
Artocarpus altilis
Golden trumpet
Allamanda cathartica
Egyptian grass
Dactyloctenium aegyptium
Giant taro
Alocasia macrorrhizos
Delta maidenhair fern
Adiantum raddianum
Quinine tree
Cinchona pubescens
Royal poinciana
Delonix regia
Coral vine
Antigonon leptopus
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye
Sphagneticola trilobata
Tree marigold
Tithonia diversifolia
Hispid starbur
Acanthospermum hispidum
Alexandrian laurel
Calophyllum inophyllum
River sheoak
Casuarina cunninghamiana
Black wattle
Acacia mangium
Green wattle
Acacia decurrens
Indian Jointvetch
Aeschynomene indica
Pride-of-barbados
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Scotch attorney
Clusia rosea
sawah-flower-rush
Limnocharis flava
Purple plague
Miconia calvescens
Earleaf acacia
Acacia auriculiformis
Indian rosewood
Dalbergia sissoo
red spiderling
Boerhavia diffusa
Caribbean Pine
Pinus caribaea
Creeping water Primrose
Ludwigia adscendens
Peruvian primrose-willow
Ludwigia peruviana
calopo
Calopogonium mucunoides
Black mimosa
Mimosa pigra
Deviltree
Alstonia macrophylla
Linear Leaf Water Primrose
Ludwigia hyssopifolia
creeping sensitive-plant
Mimosa invisa
Water spangles
Salvinia minima
Okie bean
Dipogon lignosus
banana poka
Passiflora tarminiana
tropical reed
Phragmites karka
Black wattle
Acacia mearnsii
Indian thorny bamboo
Bambusa bambos
Common carpetgrass
Axonopus fissifolius
Achicoria azul
Launaea intybacea
Redflower ragleaf
Crassocephalum crepidioides
Creeping croftonweed
Ageratina riparia
Blue Corn-lily
Aristea ecklonii
Sour Prickle
Opuntia dillenii
East indian bristlegrass
Setaria barbata
Cogongrass
Imperata cylindrica
Sticky snakeroot
Ageratina adenophora
Shrubby dillenia
Dillenia suffruticosa
Asiatic elephant
Elephas maximus
Cyanobacterium
Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii
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