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Italy

Europe · Southern Europe

Total Species
1910
Threatened
74
CR + EN + VU
Population
60 461 828
Area
301 336 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 16
Endangered 25
Vulnerable 33
Near Threatened 60
Least Concern 465
Data Deficient 23
Not Evaluated 1193
Extinct 20

Species by Taxonomic Group

Animalia 955
Plantae 918
Chromista 20
Fungi 15
Bacteria 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Italy

Hairy dewflower

Drosanthemum hispidum

Not Evaluated

Kleberg's bluestem

Dichanthium annulatum

Not Evaluated

Sticky snakeroot

Ageratina adenophora

Not Evaluated

California-geranium

Roldana petasitis

Not Evaluated

Cast iron plant

Aspidistra elatior

Not Evaluated

Petunia

Petunia atkinsiana

Not Evaluated

black-flag

Ferraria crispa

Not Evaluated

Peach

Prunus persica

Not Evaluated

large round-leaf prickly-pear

Opuntia spinulifera

Not Evaluated

Globe Kyllinga

Cyperus brevifolius

Not Evaluated

silver bluestem

Bothriochloa laguroides

Not Evaluated

dusty-miller

Centaurea ragusina

Not Evaluated

New Zealand nightshade

Solanum aviculare

Not Evaluated

Spreading amaranth

Amaranthus crassipes

Not Evaluated

Scilla

Scilla hyacinthoides

Not Evaluated

African boxthorn

Lycium ferocissimum

Not Evaluated

toy-cypress

Crassula muscosa

Not Evaluated

Atlantic Poison Oak

Toxicodendron pubescens

Not Evaluated

Great Plains Flatsedge

Cyperus lupulinus

Not Evaluated

Bamboo

Phyllostachys reticulata

Not Evaluated

Townsend's cordgrass

Sporobolus townsendii

Not Evaluated

Hollyhock Rust

Puccinia malvacearum

Not Evaluated

American Gooseberry Mildew

Podosphaera mors-uvae

Not Evaluated

Brown Fruit Rot

Monilinia fructicola

Not Evaluated

Alder rust

Melampsoridium hiratsukanum

Not Evaluated

Sphaeropsis blight

Sphaeropsis sapinea

Not Evaluated

Daisy Rust

Puccinia distincta

Not Evaluated

Entoleuca mammata

Vulnerable

Rhabdocline pseudotsugae

Not Evaluated

Erysiphe flexuosa

Not Evaluated

Kabatiella caulivora

Not Evaluated

Puccinia lagenophorae

Not Evaluated

Macrophomina phaseolina

Not Evaluated

Erysiphe platani

Not Evaluated

Ramularia collo-cygni

Not Evaluated

Egg Wrack

Ascophyllum nodosum

Least Concern

japweed

Sargassum muticum

Not Evaluated

Sudden oak death

Phytophthora ramorum

Not Evaluated

Brown algae

Colpomenia peregrina

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora Disease of Alder

Phytophthora alni

Not Evaluated

Asian kelp

Undaria pinnatifida

Not Evaluated

Root rot

Phytophthora quercina

Not Evaluated

Aphanomyces astaci

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora cactorum

Not Evaluated

Halothrix lumbricalis

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora syringae

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora cambivora

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora cryptogea

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora nicotianae

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora megasperma

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora citricola

Not Evaluated

Phytophthora gonapodyides

Not Evaluated

Ardilla Gris Oriental

Sciurus carolinensis

Not Evaluated

Erwinia amylovora

Not Evaluated

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Thunnus thynnus

Least Concern

Etruscan Shrew

Suncus etruscus

Least Concern

western roe deer

Capreolus capreolus

Least Concern

fallow deer

Dama dama

Not Evaluated

elk

Cervus elaphus

Vulnerable

Essex Skipper

Thymelicus lineola

Vulnerable

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