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Taxon:  Avena abyssinica Hochst. ex A. Rich.



Summary
Genus:
Avena
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Aveninae
Nomen number:
6084
Place of publication:
Tent. fl. abyss. 2:415. 1850-1851
Verified:
01/27/1992 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
10 (10  active, 10  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Avena abyssinica Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. abyssinica

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Ahokas, H. & M.-L. Manninen. 2000. Introgressive hexapoid oats from the Avena abyssinica × A. sativa hybrid: performance, grain lipds and proteins. Euphytica 111:153-160.
  2. Ahokas, H. & M.-L. Manninen. 2000. Introgressive hexapoid oats from the Avena abyssinica × A. sativa hybrid: performance, grain lipds and proteins. Euphytica 111:153-160.
  3. Baum, B. R. 1971. Taxonomic studies in Avena abyssinica and A. vaviloviana, and some related species. Canad. J. Bot. 49:2227-2232.
  4. Baum, B. R. 1977. Oats: wild and cultivated. A monograph of the genus Avena (Poaceae). 1977 248.
  5. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. Flora of Ethiopia. 1989- (and Eritrea. 2000)
  6. Jellen, E. N. & J. M. Leggett. 2006. Chapter 7. Cytogenetic manipulation in oat improvement [Volume 2. Cereals ]. Genetic resources, chromosome engineering, and crop improvement. 2005- 261.
  7. Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption. 1984
  8. Ladizinsky, G. Chapter 2.7. Oat domestication. Studies in oat evolution; a man's life with Avena. SpringerBriefs in Agriculture. 2012 60-61.
  9. Lawes, D. A. 1971. Oat improvement - Recent research and developments. Field Crop Abstr. 24:203-215.
  10. Li, C.-D. et al. 2000. Tracing the phylogeny of the hexaploid oat Avena sativa with satellite DNA's. Crop Sci. (Madison) 40:1755-1763.
  11. Loskutov, I. G. & H. W. Rines. 2011. Chapter 3. Avena. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals. 2011 109-183.
  12. Loskutov, I. G. & H. W. Rines. 2011. Chapter 3. Avena. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals. 2011 109-183.
  13. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  14. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
  15. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
  16. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  18. Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. World economic plants: a standard reference (on-line edition) [medicinal plants only].
  19. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Common names
English
Abyssinian oat –
Ethiopian oat –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEritrea  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
2CultivatedAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen
Cultivated
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Human foodcereal Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption. 1984
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=6084. Accessed 10 January 2025.

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