Avena taxonomy

Taxon (chromosome number)

Section Avenotrichon (Holub) Baum

A. macrostachya Bal. ex Coss. et Dur.*#% (28) (C-banding karyotype) (photo of floret)

Section Ventricosa Baum

A. clauda Dur.*#% (14)

A. eriantha Dur.*# (14) (photo of spikelet)

A. ventricosa Bal. ex Coss.*#% (14) (photo of florets)

Section Agraria Baum

A. brevis Roth*# (14)

A. hispanica Ard.*# (14) (C-banding karyotype) (photo of spikelets)

A. nuda L.*# (14)

A. strigosa Schreb.*#% (14, 28) (photo of floret)

Section Tenuicarpa Baum

A. agadiriana Baum et Fedak#% (28) (photo of spikelets)

A. atlantica Baum et Fedak#% (14) (photo of spikelets)

A. barbata Pott ex Link*#% (28) (photo of florets)

A. canariensis Baum, Raj. et Samp.*#% (14) (photo of spikelet)

A. damascena Raj. et Baum*#% (14) (photo of floret)

A. hirtula Lag.*# (14, 28) (photo of floret)

A. prostrata Ladiz.#% (14) (photo of floret)

A. longiglumis Dur.*#% (14, 28) (photo of florets)

A. lusitanica (Tab. Mor.) Baum*# (14, 28) (photo of florets)

A. matritensis Baum*# (14?)

A. wiestii Steud.*# (14, 28) (photo of florets)

Section Ethiopica Baum

A. abyssinica Hochst.*# (28) (photo of spikelets)

A. vaviloviana (Malz.) Mordv.*# (28) (photo of florets)

Section Pachycarpa Baum

A. insularis Ladiz. (28) (C-banding karyotype) (photo of spikelets)

A. maroccana Gdgr.*#/A. magna Murphy et Terr.% (28) (photo of spikelets)

A. murphyi Ladiz.*#% (28) (photo of spikelets)

Section Avena

A. atherantha Presl*# (42)

A. fatua L.*# (42) (photo of florets)

A. hybrida Peterm.*# (42) (photo of florets)

A. occidentalis Dur.*# (42) (photo of florets)

A. sativa L.*#% (42) (photo of spikelets)

A. byzantina C. Koch# (42) (photo of spikelets)

A. sterilis L.*# (42) (photo of spikelets)

A. trichophylla C. Koch*# (42)

*Baum, BR. 1977. Oats: Wild and Cultivated. A monograph of the genus Avena L. (Poaceae).

Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Dept. Of Agriculture, Research Branch, Ottawa,

Ontario, Canada. Monograph no. 14.

#Leggett, JM. 1992. Classification and speciation in Avena. Pp. 29-52. In HG Marshall and ME

Sorrells (eds.) Oat Science and Technology. Monograph 33 in Agronomy series. American

Society of Agronomy, Madison, Wisconsin.

%Ladizinsky, G. 1988. Biological species and wild genetic resources in Avena. In B Mattsson and

R Lyhagen (eds.) Proc. Third Int. Oat Conf., Lund, Sweden, July 4-8, 1988. Svalof AB, Sweden.