| Source: | Greuter, W. (2006+): Compositae (pro parte majore). – In: Greuter, W. & Raab-Straube, E. von (ed.): Compositae. Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).
 
 
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                            | Name: | Launaea fragilis (Asso) Pau | 
                          
						  
                            | Nomencl. ref.: | in Bol. Soc. Aragonesa Ci. Nat. 16: 68. 1917 | 
						  
                          
                            | Rank: | Species | 
                          
                            | Status: | ACCEPTED | 
	
		| Taxonomy (this taxon is included in): | Regnum - Plantae Divisio - Tracheophyta
 Subdivisio - Spermatophytina
 Class - Magnoliopsida
 Superordo - Asteranae
 Ordo - Asterales
 Familia - Compositae Giseke
 Tribus - Cichorieae Lam. & DC.
 Genus - Launaea Cass.
 
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		| Basionym: | Lactuca fragilis Asso | 
                          
                          
                            | Homotypic synonyms: | Lactuca fragilis Asso | 
                          
                          
                            | Heterotypic synonyms: | Launaea tenuiloba (Boiss.) Kuntze | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Scorzonera chondrilloides Willd. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Zollikoferia longiloba Boiss. & Reut. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Zollikoferia tenuiloba Boiss. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Launaea resedifolia subsp. longiloba (Boiss. & Reut.) Maire | 
                          
                          
                            | Invalid designations: | Launaea resedifolia subsp. viminea, des. inval. | 
                          
                          
                            | Misapplied names: | "Launaea mucronata" sec. Osorio-Tafall, B. H. & Serafim, G. M. - List of the vascular plants of Cyprus Nicosia 1973. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Pignatti, S. - Flora d'Italia 3 Bologna 1982. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Meikle, R. D. - Flora of Cyprus 2 Kew 1985. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Viney, D. E. - An illustrated flora of North Cyprus 1 Vaduz 1994. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Ozenda, P. - Flore du Sahara, Ed. 2 Paris 1977. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Jahandiez, E. & Maire, R. - Catalogue des plantes du Maroc 3 Alger 1934. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Pottier-Alapetite, G. - Flore de la Tunisie 2 Tunis 1981. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. - Flora europaea 1-5 Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1964-1980. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Haslam, S. L., Sell, P. D. & Wolseley, P. A. - A flora of the Maltese Islands Msida 1977. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Quézel, P. & Santa, S. - Nouvelle flore de l’Algérie et des régions désertiques méridionales 2 Paris 1963. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Täckholm, V. - Students’ flora of Egypt, Ed. 2 Beirut 1974. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Zohary, M. & Feinbrun-Dothan, N. - Flora Palaestina 3 (Text) [Feinbrun-Dothan, N.] Jerusalem 1978. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Ali, S. I. & Jafri, S. M. H. - Flora of Libya 107 [Alavi, S. A.] Tripoli 1983. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Boulos, L. (1979) - A check-list of the Libyan flora 3. Compositae (by C. Jeffrey) - Candollea Geneva 34: 307-332. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Fiori, A. - Nuova flora analitica d’Italia 2 Firenze 1925-1929. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Zangheri, P. - Flora italica 1 (Testo) Padova 1976. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Pampanini, R. - Prodromo della flora cirenaica Forlì 1931. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Frankenberg, P. & Klaus, D. - Atlas der Pflanzenwelt des Nordafrikanischen Trockenraumes: Computerkarten wesentlicher Pflanzenarten und Pflanzenfamilien Bonn 1980. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Heller, D. & Heyn, C. C. - Conspectus florae orientalis 8 Jerusalem 1993. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Della, A. - The Cyprus flora in checklist format Roma 1999. | 
                          
                            |  | "Launaea resedifolia" sec. Danin, A., Shmida, A. & Liston, A. (1985) - Contributions to the flora of Sinai, III. Checklist of the species collected and recorded by the Jerusalem team 1967-1982. - Willdenowia Berlin-Dahlem 15: 255-322. | 
                          
                            |  | "Zollikoferia resedifolia" sec. Willkomm, M. & Lange, J. - Prodromus florae hispanicae 2 Stuttgart 1865-1870. | 
                          
                            |  | "Zollikoferia resedifolia" sec. Willkomm, M. - Supplementum prodromi florae hispanicae 2 Stuttgart 1893. | 
                          
                            |  | "Zollikoferia resedifolia" sec. Cadevall i Diars, J. & Sallent, A. - Flora de Catalunya 3(3-6) Barcelona 1923. | 
 
						  
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		| Common names: | Launea (Italian), לוֹנֵאָה דַּקַּת-אֻנּוֹת (Israel (Hebrew)), לוניאה דקת-אונות (Israel (Hebrew)), سَليحَة الجِمال (Arabic), لونييَة نَحيلَة الفُصوص (Arabic)[Credits] | 
	
		| Maps: | distribution | 
	
		| Occurrence: | Ag Cy Eg Hs(S) Ir Le Li Ma †Si(M) Si(S) Sn Tn |