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Taxon: Avena sativa L.

Genus: Avena
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Poeae subtribe: Aveninae.
Nomen number: 6123
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:79. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 28-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 25-Sep-2008
Species priority site is: National Small Grains Collection (NSGC).
Accessions: 10930 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘OAT’ ) or .


Common names:

  • oat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • red oat   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – English
  • side oat   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  • tree oat   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  • avoine byzantine   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – French
  • avoine cultivée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Hafer   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  • Mittelmeerhafer   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – German
  • Saathafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • ma-karasu-mugi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • aveia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • aveia-amarela   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – Portuguese
  • avena   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • avena común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • avena roja   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – Spanish
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Distributional range:

      Cultivated:
  • only cultivated

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). (PROTABASE)
  • Baum, B. R. 1977. Oats: wild and cultivated. A monograph of the genus Avena (Poaceae). (Monog Avena) 306.
  • Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. (Herbal Drugs)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. (Cooper & Johnson ed2) [poisonous].
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). (Ecocrop)
  • Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. (Kellerman et al.) [poisonous].
  • Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. (Kingsbury) [poisonous].
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource). (Can Poison Pl)
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
  • University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource). (Cover Crop Database)
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Images:

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  • 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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