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|accepted_name=Launaea
|accepted_authority=Cassini
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|place=2, 25: 61, 321. 1822
|year=1822
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Brachyramphus
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Launaea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Launaea]]</div></div>
|etymology=For J. Cl. M. Mordant de Launay, 1750–1816, lawyer, later librarian at Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 214, 215, 216, 217, 219
|treatment_page=page 272
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or biennials [perennials, shrubs, sometimes spiny], [5–]30–150 cm; usually taprooted [stoloniferous]. <b>Stems</b> erect [prostrate], distally branched, glabrous [± hairy]. <b>Leaves</b> basal or basal and proximally cauline; petiolate or sessile; blades ± oblanceolate, often pinnately lobed, ultimate margins usually dentate (teeth usually ± prickly; faces glabrous [± hairy]). <b>Heads</b> in spiciform or racemiform to paniculiform arrays [borne singly]. <b>Peduncles</b> not inflated distally, bracteolate. <b>Calyculi</b> 0 (or bractlets intergrading with phyllaries). <b>Involucres</b> cylindric [urceolate, campanulate, or obconic], 3–5[–16] mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> (persistent, reflexed in fruit) 18–25 in 3–5+ series, unequal, ovate to lanceolate (outer) or linear (inner), margins scarious, apices obtuse to acuminate (faces glabrous [± hairy]). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 25–30; corollas yellow to ochroleucous [cyanic]. <b>Cypselae</b> blackish to grayish, cylindric to fusiform or ± prismatic, sometimes ± compressed, beaks 0 (or lengths 0.05–0.1 times bodies), 4–5-ribbed (or -grooved), ribs usually muricate, faces glabrous; pappi persistent or tardily falling [readily falling], double [simple], of 60–100+, outer, white, often ± coiled or crisped (frizzy) hairs or bristles in 2–3 series plus 80–120+, white, coarser, barbellulate to smooth bristles in 2–3+ series, all distinct or some basally connate. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Europe;n Africa;Atlantic Islands;sw;c Asia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=kilian1997a
|text=Kilian, N. 1997. Revision of Launaea Cass. (Compositae, Lactuceae, Sonchinae). Englera 17.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Launaea
|author=R. David Whetstone;Kristin R. Brodeur
|authority=Cassini
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Brachyramphus
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Europe;n Africa;Atlantic Islands;sw;c Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=kilian1997a
|publication title=in F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1822
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_373.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Launaea
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