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Taxon:  Avena sterilis L.



Summary
Genus:
Avena
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Aveninae
Nomen number:
6148
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:118. 1762, nom. cons. prop.
Comment:
proposed for conservation (nom. cons. prop.) with a conserved type (Shenzhen ICN 14.9)
Verified:
01/29/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
5 (5  active, 5  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Avena sterilis L. f. sterilis
Avena sterilis L. subsp. sterilis
Avena sterilis L. var. sterilis

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
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  7. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
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Common names
English
animated oat –
sterile oat –
wild oat –
wild red oat –
winter wild oat –
French
avoine animée –
avoine stérile –
German
Winterhafer –
Portuguese
aveão –
Spanish
avena caballuna –
avena estéril –
avena loca –
Swedish
storhavre –
Transliterated Russian
oves besplodny –
oves sredizemnomorskij –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaPortugalMadeira Islands 
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaSpainCanary Islands 
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaAlgeria  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaLibya  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaMorocco  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaTunisia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaSaudi Arabia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusArmenia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKyrgyzstan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTajikistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTurkmenistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaUzbekistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaAfghanistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaCyprus  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaEgyptSinai 
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIran  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIraq  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIsrael  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaJordan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaLebanon  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaSyria  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaTurkey  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia n.w.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeEuropeEastern EuropeEstonia  
1NativeEuropeEastern EuropeLithuania  
1NativeEuropeEastern EuropeRussian FederationVolgograd 
1NativeEuropeEastern EuropeUkraine  
1NativeEuropeEastern EuropeUkraineKrym 
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeCzech Republic  
1NativeEuropeMiddle EuropeSwitzerland  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeBulgaria  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeCroatia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeGreece incl. Crete
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeItaly incl. Sardinia, Sicily
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeSerbia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeSlovenia  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeFrance incl. Corsica
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropePortugal  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeSpain incl. Baleares
4Naturalized    widely natzd. elsewhere
Native
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia (n.)
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Egypt [Sinai], Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  • CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.w.), Pakistan
Europe
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Czech Republic, Switzerland
  • EASTERN EUROPE: Estonia, Lithuania, Russian Federation [Volgograd], Ukraine [Krym]
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodpotential as fodderas progenitor of fodder cultivarsLoskutov, I. G. & H. W. Rines. 2011. Chapter 3. Avena. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals 109-183. Note: this review included hexaploid Avena sterilis with ACD genome; it commented that all hexaploids in the genus have "similar karyotypes and in general have the same genome"; therefore the primary gene pool "includes all cultivated and hexaploids wild species"; this species is also used as progenitor of hybrids used as fodder; it carries resistance to Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV), to powdery mildew caused by Blumeria graminis (as Erysiphe graminis), to Fusarium, to smut caused by Ustilago spp. from North-African populations; also resistant to Myrothecium necrotic bight caused by Albifimbria verrucaria (as M. verrucaria), to Septoria blight caused by Parastagonospora avenae (as S. avneae)
Vertebrate poisonsmammals Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Weedpotential seed contaminant CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2023. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grinczech.vurv.cz/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=6148. Accessed 3 June 2023.


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