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Avena

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Monocots Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Avena

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Stout annuals.

Stems: Culms tall, hollow.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades flat, non–auriculate. Margins entire. Sheaths open to base; ligule short and membranous. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence an open, drooping panicle; spikelets usually 2–3–flowered, large, rachilla hirsute to glabrous, prolonged behind uppermost floret, disarticulating above glumes and between florets; glumes subequal, usually more than 2 cm long, exceeding first floret and often the second; lemmas 5–7–nerved, glabrous, or pilose on lower ½, tough and indurate, dorsally awned, the awn arising near middle of lemma, stout, twisted and geniculate, sometimes small and straight or absent; palea shorter than lemma, 2–keeled. Florets bisexual (perfect). Stamens 3. Ovary superior.

Fruit: Caryopsis pubescent at apex.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 79 (1753)

Occurrences

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