ESWATINI (SWAZILAND)
Plants
unique to Eswatini include an orchid Disa intermedia (iNaturalist),
a red hot poker Kniphofia umbrina (ENTC WM)
(iNaturalist),
Erica swaziensis
(ARKive
WM) (ENTC WM),
Streptocarpus
davyi (ARKive
WM),
Ocimum motjaneanum
(ENTC WM),
Ceropegia swaziorum
(ENTC WM)
(iNaturalist),
Senecio
mlilwanensis (ENTC WM)
(iNaturalist),
Eumorphia
swaziensis (ENTC WM)
(iNaturalist),
Orthosiphon vernalis
(ENTC WM),
Ledebouria (or Drimiopsis) pusilla (SANBI) (iNaturalist),
Ledebouria (or Drimiopsis) comptonii (SANBI) (iNaturalist),
Cineraria
ngwenyensis (ENTC WM), Syncolostemon
comptonii (ENTC WM),
Metathelypteris
burrowsiorum (ResearchGate),
Barleria
lebomboensis (ENTC WM)
(iNaturalist),
Afroaster
pseudobakeranus (JSTOR),
Monopsis malvacea (iNaturalist),
Dierama elatum
(JSTOR)
(ENTC WM),
Eragrostis
comptonii (JSTOR),
Leobordea spicata
(POWO),
Drimiopsis (or Ledebouria) reilleyana
(GBIF),
Callilepis retiefiae (GBIF), Selago swaziensis (iNaturalist), and perhaps Hesperantha
umbricola (GBIF).
Pachycarpus
stelliceps (JSTOR)
is possibly extinct and the cycad Encephalartos
relictus (Africa
Cycads) (World
List of Cycads)
is extinct in the wild.
The Swazi Flat Gecko Afroedura
major (pachydactylus.com
WM)
(Reptile
Database) is the sole endemic vertebrate species.
Insects known only from Eswatini include the grasshoppers Swaziacris burtti (Biodiversity Explorer WM) and Acrida fumata (OSF), an ant Tetramorium plumosum (AntWiki), the dung beetles Gyronotus schuelei (ResearchGate) and Sisyphus swazi (GBIF), the longhorn beetles Plectopsebium bellamyi (Cerambycidae Species WM) and Prosopocera capeneri (p. 3 of Cerambycoidea.com pdf), a tiger beetle Dromica thomaswiesneri (p. 2 of ResearchGate pdf), a carpet beetle Orphinus alinae (fig. 1 at ResearchGate), a rove beetle Pachorhopala mlilwanensis (fig. 42 at Contributions to Entomology pdf), the leafroller moths Clepsis gnathocera (p. 8 of PPE WM pdf) and Malolotia malolotiana (fig. 112 at Semantic Scholar), a cossid moth Aethalopteryx rudloffi (fig. 20 on p. 127 of ZOBODAT pdf), a case-bearer moth Coleophora swaziella (GBIF), a robber fly Dasophrys swazi (p. 53 of Sabinet pdf), and a small dung fly Scutelliseta swaziana (fig. 16 at Sabinet pdf).
Other
endemic invertebrates include a
wall crab spider Anyphops
narcissi (World
Spider Catalog), and the centipedes Geoperingueyia
minor (CHILOBASE)
and Polygonarea
clavigera (CHILOBASE).
Portions of Eswatini are included in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity
Hotspots WM).
Terrestrial ecoregions include the
Maputaland Coastal Forest Mosaic (WWF WM),
the Zambezian and Mopane Woodlands (WWF WM),
the Drakensberg Montane Grasslands, Woodlands, and Forests (WWF WM).
For more information on Eswatini's endemic species see (ENTC WM)
and (ENTC WM).