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Taxon:  Avena sativa L.



Summary
Genus:
Avena
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Aveninae
Nomen number:
6123
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:79. 1753
Verified:
01/28/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
31 (31  active, 14  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource). Note: http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Avena_barbata/
  2. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  3. Baum, B. R. 1977. Oats: wild and cultivated. A monograph of the genus Avena (Poaceae). 1977 306.
  4. Bisset, N. G., ed. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. 1994 Note: CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (translation of German edition, by M. Wichtl, ed.)
  5. Chaudhary, S. A. Weeds of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula. 1987
  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959-
  7. Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
  8. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  9. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  10. Encke, F. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. 1993
  11. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Avena+sativa&quantity=1
  12. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  13. Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988 Note: poisonous
  14. Kingsbury, J. M. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. 1964 Note: poisonous
  15. Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. 1997
  16. Loskutov, I. G. & H. W. Rines. 2011. Chapter 3. Avena. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals. 2011 109-183.
  17. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  18. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  19. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:83
  20. Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource). http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/pp/poison?p_x=px
  21. Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). 1965
  22. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  23. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  24. Rehm, S. & G. Espig. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. 1991
  25. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
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  27. Tzvelev, N. N. Zlaki SSSR. 1976
  28. University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource). http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ccrop/
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  30. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
oat –
red oat –
side oat –
tree oat –
Arabic
shofan –
French
avoine byzantine –
avoine cultivée –
German
Hafer –
Mittelmeerhafer –
Saathafer –
Italian
avena –
avena rossa –
Japanese Rōmaji
ōto –
ōto-mugi –
ma-karasu-mugi –
Portuguese
aveia –
aveia-amarela –
Spanish
avena –
avena común –
avena roja –
Swedish
havre –
rödhavre –
Transcribed Chinese
yan mai –
Transcribed Korean
gwiri –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    only cult.
Cultivated (only cult.)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
soil improver (fide Cover Crop Database) –
Human food
beverage base (fide CultTropS) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2) –


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