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Avena

Genus of plants

Species / taxontaxonQ146760

Scientific name: Avena
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1.Stated in Genera Plantarum
2.Stated in Species Plantarum. 1st Edition, Volume 1
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Rank: genus
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1.Stated in Genera Plantarum
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Parent taxon: Aveneae

Overview

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Avena is a genus of Eurasian and African plants in the grass family. Collectively known as the oats, they include some species which have been cultivated for thousands of years as a food source for humans and livestock. They are widespread throughout Europe, Asia and northwest Africa. Several species have become naturalized in many parts of the world, and are regarded as invasive weeds where they compete with crop production. All oats have edible seeds, though they are small and hard to harvest in most species.

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Taxonomic type: Avena sativa
Taxon common name: oat
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1.Stated in United States Department of Agriculture Plants DatabaseRetrieved 2016-06-06
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1.Stated in Nederlands SoortenregisterRetrieved 2017-01-19
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1.Stated in Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 9(3)
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1.Stated in A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios
2.Stated in Families and genera of Chinese angiosperms: a synoptic classification based on APG III
3.Stated in A dataset on inventory and geographical distributions of vascular plants in Beijing, China
4.Stated in Checklist of tracheophyte in Heilongjiang Province
5.Stated in Species cataloging of the seed plants in Zhejiang, East China
6.Stated in A checklist of vascular plants in Shaanxi Province, China (Version 2021)
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1.Stated in The Little Flora of Slovenia (3rd ed.)
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Has fruit type: caryopsis
Different from: tooth
Homonymous taxon: Avena

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