Swaziland
Plants
unique to
Swaziland include an orchid Disa intermedia (ARKive),
a red hot poker Kniphofia umbrina (ARKive),
Erica swaziensis
(ARKive),
Streptocarpus
davyi (ARKive),
Orthosiphon vernalis
(SNTC),
Ocimum motjaneanum
(SNTC),
Syncolostemon
comptonii (JSTOR),
Senecio
mlilwanensis (SNTC),
Eumorphia
swaziensis (SNTC),
Aster
pseudobakeranus (JSTOR),
Monopsis malvacea
(JSTOR),
Eragrostis
comptonii (Kew),
the recently described Cineraria
ngwenyensis (Wikispecies),
and perhaps Hesperantha
umbricola (SNTC).
Pachycarpus
stelliceps (JSTOR)
is possibly extinct and the cycad Encephalartos
relictus (Picasa)
is extinct in the wild.
Insects known only from Swaziland include a grasshopper Swaziacris burtti (OSF),
the longhorned beetle Prosopocera
capeneri (eol), a
robber fly Dasophrys
swazi (eol), and a
small dung fly Scutelliseta
swaziana (eol). Other
endemic invertebrates include a
wall crab spider Anyphops
narcissi (World
Spider Catalog), and the centipedes Geoperingueyia
minor (CHILOBASE)
and Polygonarea
clavigera (CHILOBASE).
The Swazi Thick-tailed Gecko Afroedura
major (p. 168 of CBD
pdf file) is the sole endemic vertebrate species, although it is
sometimes considered a subspecies of the Pondo Rock Gecko Afroedura pondolia.
Portions of Swaziland are included in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity
Hotspots). Terrestrial ecoregions include the
Maputaland Coastal Forest Mosaic (EoE),
the Zambezian and Mopane Woodlands (EoE),
the Drakensberg Montane Grasslands, Woodlands, and Forests (EoE).