''Launaea gorgadensis'' is a species of flowering plants of the family

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

. The species is endemic to

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

.Oromí, Martín, Zurita & Cabrera, 2005 :
Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: Hongos, Plantas y Animales Terrestres.
' Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, p. 41 It is listed as a critically endangered plant by the IUCN.

Distribution

The species is found in the northwest of

, in the islands of Santo Antão, São Vicente and São Nicolau. The plant occurs between elevation. It is a

mesophyte Mesophytes are terrestrial plants which are adapted to neither particularly dry nor particularly wet environments. An example of a mesophytic habitat would be a rural temperate meadow, which might contain goldenrod, clover, oxeye daisy, and '' Ros ...

plant which grows in sub-humid and semi-arid areas.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15599644 gorgadensis Endemic flora of Cape Verde Flora of Santo Antão, Cape Verde Flora of São Nicolau, Cape Verde Flora of São Vicente, Cape Verde