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Taxon: Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P. Beauv. ex J. Presl & C. Presl

Genus: Arrhenatherum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Poeae subtribe: Aveninae.
Nomen number: 103453
Place of publication: Fl. čech. 17. 1819
Name verified on: 06-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 16-Mar-2009
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 154 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • false oat grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • false oat-grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • French-rye   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • meadow oat grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • tall oat grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • tuber oat grass   (Source: Hortus 3 [as A. elatius var. bulbosum]) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  • avoine élevée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • fromental   (Source: F Iraq ) – French   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • französisches Raygras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • Glatthafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • aveia-de-rosário   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • aveia-grande   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  • mazorilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
    Middle Asia: Turkmenistan [s.]
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • naturalized s. Africa, tropical Asia, Australia, New Zealand, w. United States, Central America, South America, Mascarenes, & Hawaii

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
  • Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P. Beauv. ex J. Presl & C. Presl:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
  • Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?103453 (09 February 2010)

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