Launaea

Accepted species 57 Documented here 11 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 57 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Launaea arborescens (Batt.) Murb. 136 documented
Launaea sarmentosa (Willd.) Kuntze 30 documented
Launaea intybacea (Jacq.) Beauverd 20 documented
Launaea nudicaulis Less. 14 documented
Launaea nudicaulis (L.) Hook.f. 14 documented
Launaea cervicornis (Boiss.) Font Quer & Rothm. 13 documented
Launaea lanifera Pau 4 documented
Launaea procumbens (Roxb.) Ramayya & Rajagopal 3 documented
Launaea rarifolia (Oliv. & Hiern) Boulos 3 documented
Launaea rhynchocarpa (Balf.f.) Mies 3 documented
Launaea spinosa (Forssk.) Sch.Bip. ex Kuntze 3 documented
Launaea nana (Baker) Chiov. 2 below the evidence gate
Launaea pumila (Cav.) Kuntze 2 below the evidence gate
Launaea mucronata (Forssk.) Muschl. 1 below the evidence gate
Launaea acanthodes (Boiss.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea acaulis (Roxb.) Babc. ex Kerr 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea almahrahensis N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea amal-aminiae N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea angolensis N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea angustifolia (Coss. & Durieu) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea aspleniifolia (Willd.) Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea benadirensis Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea bornmuelleri (Hausskn. ex Bornm.) Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea brunneri (Webb) Amin ex Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea cabrae (De Wild.) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea calmadowensis Baldesi & N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea capitata (Spreng.) Dandy 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea castanosperma F.G.Davies 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea cornuta (Hochst. ex Oliv. & Hiern) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea crassifolia (Balf.f.) C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea crepoides Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea fragilis (Asso) Pau 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea gorgadensis (Bolle) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea hafunensis Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea korovinii (Popov) Popov ex Pavlov 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea lackii N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea massauensis (Fresen.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea microcephala Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea oligocephala (Hausskn. & Bornm.) Bornm. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea omanensis N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea petitiana (A.Rich.) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea picridioides (Webb) Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea platyphylla Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea polydichotoma (Ostenf.) Amin ex N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea pseudoabyssinica (Chiov.) N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea quercifolia (Desf.) Pamp. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea quettaensis N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea rogersii (Humbert) Humbert & Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea rueppellii (Sch.Bip. ex Oliv. & Hiern) Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea secunda (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea socotrana N.Kilian 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea stenocephala (Boiss.) Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea taraxacifolia (Willd.) Amin ex C.Jeffrey 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea thalassica N.Kilian, Brochmann & Rustan 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea verdickii (De Wild.) Boulos 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea viminea Batt. 0 below the evidence gate
Launaea violacea (O.Hoffm.) Boulos 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.