Launaea arborescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

[1] The species was first described by Jules Aimé Battandier in 1888 as Zollikoferia arborescens.

It was transferred to Launaea in 1923 by Svante Samuel Murbeck.

[2][3] The species occurs in Spain, the Canary Islands, Algeria, Morocco,[3] Mauritania and Cape Verde.

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