Asteraceae
Launaea

Launaea massauensis (Fresen.) Sch.Bip. ex Kuntze

First published in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 351 (1891)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Medit. to S. Pakistan and Arabian Peninsula, NE. Tropical Africa to Kenya.

Distribution

Native to:

Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
[1165] Saudi Arabia K002034119 No
[242] Saudi Arabia K001730268 No
[1644] K002034112 No
[2267] Oman K002034122 No
[133] Yemen K002034121 No
[1302] Yemen K002034126 No
[7752] Oman K002034114 No
[1406] Saudi Arabia K002034120 No
[5441] Oman K002034118 No
[194] Saudi Arabia K002034125 No
Pièrce, C. [s.n.] Pakistan K002065016 No
[9999] United Arab Emirates K002034131 No
[RB112] United Arab Emirates K002034127 No
[24] Oman K002034111 No
[165-S] Saudi Arabia K002034116 No
Stocks [654] Nepal K002065017 No
[6286[4]] Egypt K002034133 No
[9431] Saudi Arabia K002034115 No
[s.n.] K002034124 No
[F1691] Egypt K002034132 No
[9431] Saudi Arabia K002034113 No
Floyer, E.A. [s.n.] India K002065018 No
[178] K002034123 No
[RB112] United Arab Emirates K002034128 No
[221] Saudi Arabia K002034117 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images