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India

Asia · Southern Asia

Total Species
1380
Threatened
30
CR + EN + VU
Population
1.380.004.385
Area
3.287.263 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 5
Endangered 5
Vulnerable 20
Near Threatened 18
Least Concern 260
Data Deficient 8
Not Evaluated 328
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 4

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1306
Animalia 69
Chromista 4
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

All Species in India

Canker Rose

Rosa canina

Least Concern

Sweet cherry

Prunus avium

Least Concern

Japan Globeflower

Kerria japonica

Not Evaluated

Brown flatsedge

Cyperus fuscus

Near Threatened

Galingale

Cyperus longus

Not Evaluated

lesser tussock-sedge

Carex diandra

Critically Endangered

Big quakinggrass

Briza maxima

Not Evaluated

Little quakinggrass

Briza minor

Not Evaluated

Upland cotton

Gossypium hirsutum

Vulnerable

Swamp morning-glory

Ipomoea aquatica

Least Concern

Wild clary

Salvia verbenaca

Not Evaluated

St. John's bread

Ceratonia siliqua

Not Evaluated

Jerusalem thorn

Parkinsonia aculeata

Least Concern

Flowering Rush

Butomus umbellatus

Critically Endangered

Baby Rose

Rosa multiflora

Not Evaluated

Few-Flower Spike-Rush

Eleocharis quinqueflora

Endangered

garden zinnia

Zinnia elegans

Not Evaluated

Galinsoga

Galinsoga quadriradiata

Not Evaluated

Chilean evening primrose

Oenothera stricta

Not Evaluated

white silk cottontree

Ceiba pentandra

Least Concern

Jujube red date

Ziziphus jujuba

Least Concern

Beach sheoak

Casuarina equisetifolia

Not Evaluated

Mesquite

Prosopis juliflora

Not Evaluated

White egyptian lotus

Nymphaea lotus

Not Evaluated

Jimsonweed

Datura metel

Not Evaluated

Violet-Flower Petunia

Petunia integrifolia

Not Evaluated

Common Water Clover

Marsilea quadrifolia

Not Evaluated

cabbage rose

Rosa centifolia

Not Evaluated

Southern sandbur

Cenchrus echinatus

Not Evaluated

Rhodes grass

Chloris gayana

Not Evaluated

Clarkia

Clarkia unguiculata

Not Evaluated

Godetia

Clarkia amoena

Not Evaluated

rose evening-primrose

Oenothera rosea

Not Evaluated

Coffee

Coffea arabica

Not Evaluated

arizona-cypress

Cupressus arizonica

Least Concern

Sydney golden wattle

Acacia longifolia

Not Evaluated

Turkey berry

Solanum torvum

Not Evaluated

Wand mullein

Verbascum virgatum

Not Evaluated

Sweet-amber

Hypericum androsaemum

Not Evaluated

Common pricklypear

Opuntia monacantha

Least Concern

Nutgrass

Cyperus rotundus

Least Concern

Japanese spindletree

Euonymus japonicus

Not Evaluated

Australian Goosefoot

Dysphania pumilio

Not Evaluated

Alligatorweed

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Not Evaluated

bilimbi

Averrhoa bilimbi

Not Evaluated

blimbing

Averrhoa carambola

Not Evaluated

New Zealand tea tree

Leptospermum scoparium

Least Concern

mamey

Mammea americana

Not Evaluated

Surinam cherry

Eugenia uniflora

Not Evaluated

Mile a minute vine

Ipomoea cairica

Not Evaluated

West Indian mahogany

Swietenia mahagoni

Near Threatened

Santol

Sandoricum koetjape

Least Concern

Cathedral bells

Kalanchoe pinnata

Not Evaluated

Damask rose

Rosa damascena

Not Evaluated

Cyprus Turpentine

Pistacia terebinthus

Least Concern

Golden trumpet

Allamanda cathartica

Least Concern

Madagascar periwinkle

Catharanthus roseus

Not Evaluated

Molassesgrass

Melinis minutiflora

Not Evaluated

Bracted strawflower

Xerochrysum bracteatum

Not Evaluated

paper daisy

Rhodanthe manglesii

Not Evaluated

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