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Avena sativa

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Identification
Avena sativa L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Bromus unrecorded
  • Avena fatua
  • Avena algeriensis
  • Avena byzantina
  • Avena sativa
  • Avena meridionalis

Flora

Entry for AVENA sativa Linn. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
AVENA sativa Linn. [family ], Spec. Pl. 79;—Host, Gram, Austr. ii. t. 59; Kunth, Enum. i. 301; Suppl. 255, t. 20, fig. 1; Trin. Gram. Suppl. 23; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 305; Fl. Afr. Austr. 351; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum i. 230; Bentl. & Trim. Med, Pl. t. 292; Körn. & Wern. Handb. Getreidebaues, i. 192; Sowerby, Grasses Gr. Brit. t. 110; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 843.
Information
culms simple; leaf-sheaths glabrous; ligules shortly ovate, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; blades linear or lanceolate-linear, glabrous, scaberulous; panicle open; branches spreading equally all round or contracted and secund; spikelets 9–12 lin. long or longer, usually with a 1-awned floret at the base and 1 or 2 awnless florets above, or with all the florets awnless; rhachilla tough or tardily disarticulating at the base, glabrous or almost so; glumes broad-lanceolate, 7–11-nerved; valves lanceolate, acuminate, shortly bifid or 2–4-toothed, glabrous, rarely with a few scattered hairs, the lowest 7–10 lin. long; awn from the middle or slightly above it, scabrid; anthers 2 lin. long; ovary hairy all over; grain tightly enclosed by its valve and pale, free, silky all over. null
Range
Widely cultivated in the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Probably of Mediterranean origin.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; foot of Table Mountain, in fields and gardens, Ecklon. Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon. Var. orientalis: Cape Div., with the typical form according to Nees.
Notes
The occurrence of the variety in the Cape Colony is doubtful. Nees's at the end of the paragraph on A. orientalis is rather in contradiction to the description given in the same place, and points to a confusion with some form of the typical A. sativa.

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