Asteraceae
Launaea

Launaea intybacea (Jacq.) Beauverd

First published in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève, sér. 2, 2: 114 (1910)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical Old World. It is an annual or biennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as animal food and a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gulf States, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, West Himalaya, Yemen

Introduced into:

Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Marianas, Mexico Southeast, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Seychelles, Suriname, Texas, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.
  • Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
  • Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.
  • Liogier, A.H. (1996). Flora de la Española 8: 1-588. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.
  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of the Cayman Islands

  • Beauverd, Bull. Soc. Bot. Genère ser. 2, 2: 114 (1900).

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.
  • Liogier, A.H. (1996). Flora de la Española 8: 1-588. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.
  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by N. Kilian [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 229 (1994).
  • Beauverd in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève ser. 2, 2: 114 (1910).
  • C. Jeffrey in Kew Bulletin 18: 472 (1966).
  • G.V. Pope in Flora Zambesiaca 6: 220, t. 40f (1992).
  • N. Kilian in Englera 17: 248 (1997).

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Burkill HM. (1995). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols. 1-3. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols 1-3.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2022 Stocks, J.E. [1190] Pakistan K001408019 Isotype No
Jan 1, 2022 Stocks [1190] Pakistan K001408018 Isotype No
Jan 1, 2016 Hooker, J.D. [202] Cabo Verde K001134005 Yes
Dec 1, 1990 Harris, B.J. [2077] Tanzania K002065826 Yes
Dec 1, 1990 Lowe, R.T. [s.n.] Cabo Verde K001134010 Yes
Jan 1, 1989 Schimper [1448] Ethiopia K000251730 Type Yes
Heath, A.; Heath, R. [2777] Botswana K001600909 Yes
Heath, A.; Heath, R. [2791] Botswana K001600910 Yes
Thomson, G. [394] India K001730522 No
Pearson, H.H.W. [3670] Namibia K002066100 Yes
[Hearn, F.] [7664] K002066099 Yes
Edgeworth [5025] India K002065012 No
Edgeworth [5024] India K002065009 No
Kotschy [406] K000251731 Isotype Yes
s.coll. [28058] Pakistan K002065006 No
Humblot, L. [170] Comoros K002066051 Yes
s.n. [6906] Madagascar K002066050 Yes
Gamble, J.S. [21752] India K002065010 No
Bourne [2185] India K002065011 No
Gamble, J.S. [16107] India K002065007 No
Cardoso, J. [252] Cabo Verde K001134011 Yes
[A. E. Dalyele] [48] India K002065008 No
Kabir [14610] India K002065013 No
Drummond, J.R.; Schufeldt, M.A. [14559] India K002065014 No
Moseley [s.n.] Cabo Verde K001134006 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] India K002065015 No
Gamble, J.S. [17748] India K001730521 No
Ehrenberg, C.G. [134] Ethiopia Launaea goraeensis K002065443 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3144] Cacalia sonchifolia K001118639 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3144] Cacalia sonchifolia K001118634 Unknown Type Material Yes
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 3144] Burma Cacalia sonchifolia K001118638 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3144] Cacalia sonchifolia K001118635 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3144] Bangladesh Cacalia sonchifolia K001118636 Unknown Type Material Yes
Gomez, W. [Cat. no. 3144] Burma Cacalia sonchifolia K001118633 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3144] Cacalia sonchifolia K001118632 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 3144] Cacalia sonchifolia K001118637 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 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 2024. 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 2024. 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

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    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0