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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Avena

Hierarchical position of the Genus Avena

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Poales Small pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.       Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh. pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons. common name: Gramineae       Subfamilia  Avenoideae Link pub. Hort. Berol. 1: 108. 1 Oct-27 Nov 1827.       Tribus  Aveneae Dumort. pub. Observ. Gramin. Belg.: 82. Jul-Sep 1824.       Subtribus  Aveninae C. Presl pub. Reliq. Haenk. 1: 246. Jan-Jun 1830.       Genus  Avena L. pub. (1753) common name: oat

Named members of the Genus Avena

1	Species  abyssinica Hochst. common name: Abyssinian oat
2	Species  barbata Pott ex Link common name: slender wild oats
3	Species  byzantina K. Koch syn. Avena sativa
4	Species  dubia Leers syn. Ventenata dubia
5	Species  elatior L. syn. Arrhenatherum elatius var. elatius
6	Species  fatua L. common name: wild oats
	7    Varietas  glabrata Peterm. syn. Avena fatua 8    Varietas  sativa (L.) Hausskn. syn. Avena sativa 9    Varietas  vilis (Wallr.) Hausskn. syn. Avena fatua
10	Species  flavescens L. syn. Trisetum flavescens
11	Species  fragilis L. syn. Gaudinia fragilis
12	Species  hirsuta Moench syn. Avena barbata
13	Species  hookeri Scribn. syn. Helictotrichon hookeri
14	Species  hybrida Peterm. ex Reichenb. p.p. syn. Avena fatua
15	Species  magna Murphy & Terrell syn. Avena maroccana
16	Species  maroccana Gand. common name: Moraccan oat
17	Species  nuda L. common name: naked oat
18	Species  occidentalis Durieu common name: western oat
19	Species  pubescens Huds. syn. Helictotrichon pubescens
20	Species  sativa L. common name: oat
	21    Varietas  orientalis (Schreb.) Alef. syn. Avena sativa
22	Species  smithii Porter ex Gray syn. Melica smithii
23	Species  sterilis L. common name: animated oats
24	Species  strigosa Schreb. common name: lopsided oat
25	Species  torreyi Nash syn. Schizachne purpurascens

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.