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The genus Launaea is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Launaea

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Launaea acaulis (Roxb.) Kerr	Accepted		TICA
Launaea amal-aminiae N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Launaea angolensis N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Launaea angustifolia (Desf.) Kuntze	Accepted		TICA
Launaea arborescens (Batt.) Murb.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea asplenifolia Hook.f.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea benadirensis Chiov.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea bornmuelleri (Hausskn. ex Bornm.) Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea brunneri (Webb) Amin ex Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Launaea cabrae (De Wild.) N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Launaea capitata (Spreng.) Dandy	Accepted		TICA
Launaea cervicornis (Boiss.) Font Quer & Rothm.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea cornuta (Hochst. ex Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Launaea crassifolia (Balf.f.) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Launaea fragilis (Asso) Pau	Accepted		TICA
Launaea gorgadensis (Bolle) N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Launaea hafunensis Chiov.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea intybacea (Jacq.) Beauverd	Accepted		TICA
Launaea lackii N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Launaea lanifera Pau	Accepted		TICA
Launaea massauensis (Fresen.) Sch.Bip. ex Kuntze	Accepted		TICA
Launaea microcephala Hook.f.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea mucronata (Forssk.) Muschl.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea nana (Baker) Chiov.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea nudicaulis (L.) Hook.f.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea petitiana (A.Rich.) N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Launaea picridioides (Webb) B.L.Rob.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea piestocarpa (Boiss.) Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea popovii Krasch.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea procumbens (Roxb.) Ramayya & Rajagopal	Accepted		TICA
Launaea pseudoabyssinica (Chiov.) N.Kilian	Accepted		TICA
Launaea pumila (Cav.) Kuntze	Accepted		TICA
Launaea quercifolia (Desf.) Pamp.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea rarifolia (Oliv. & Hiern) Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Launaea rogersii Humbert & Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Launaea rueppellii (Sch.Bip. ex Oliv. & Hiern) Amin ex Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Launaea sarmentosa (Willd.) Sch.Bip. ex Kuntze	Accepted		TICA
Launaea secunda (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea spinosa (Forssk.) Sch.Bip.	Accepted		TICA
Launaea taraxacifolia (Willd.) Amin ex C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Launaea thalassica N.Kilian, Brochmann & Rustan	Accepted		TICA
Launaea viminea (Batt.) Batt.	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 120 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Launaea. Of these 42 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 26 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Launaea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 120 species names for the genus Launaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	42	35.0%
◕	Synonym	43	35.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	35	29.2%

All names

The status of the 146 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Launaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	48	32.9%
◕	Synonym	62	42.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	36	24.7%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 120 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Launaea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	39	40	0	0	79	65.8%
	Low confidence	3	3	0	35	41	34.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Launaea, are as follows: