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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Avena sativa L. is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Avena algeriensis Trab., Avena anglica Hort. ex Roemer & Schultes, Avena byzantina K. Koch, Avena byzantina var. anopla Mordv., Avena byzantina var. thellungiana (Malzev) E. Morren, Avena chinensis Fisch. ex Roem. & Schult., Avena chinensis Link, nom. inval., Avena cinerea hort. ex Roem. & Schult., Avena diffusa var. segetalis Vavilov, Avena diffusa var. volgensis Vavilov, Avena distans Schur, Avena fatua L. fo. glaberrima Thell., Avena fatua subsp. cultiformis Malzev, Avena fatua subsp. macrantha (Hack.) Malzev, Avena fatua subsp. nodipilosa Malzev, Avena fatua subsp. praegravis (Krause) Malzev, Avena fatua subsp. sativa (L.) Thell., Avena fatua subsp. sativa Thell., Avena fatua subvar. contracta (Neilr.) Malzev, Avena fatua var. glaberrima (Thell.) Malzev, Avena fatua var. sativa (L.) Hausskn., Avena flava Hort. ex Roem. & Schult., Avena fusca Schur, nom. illeg., non Avena fusca Ard., Avena fuscoflora Schur, Avena georgiana Roem. & Schult., Avena georgica Zuccagni, Avena grandis Nevski, Avena heteromalla Haller, Avena hungarica Lucé, Avena hybrida Peterm. ex Rchb. p.p., Avena macrantha (Hack.) Malzev, Avena macrantha (Hack.) Nevski, Avena nigra Wallr., Avena nodipilosa (Malzev) Malzev, nom. illeg., non Avena nodipilosa (Malzev) Malzev, Avena orientalis Schreb., Avena pendula Gilib., Avena persarum Nevski, Avena podolica Pascal. ex Zuccagni, Avena ponderosa L. ex B.D. Jacks., Avena praecocioides Litv., Avena praecoqua Litv., Avena praegravis (Krause) Roshev., Avena pseudosativa (Thell.) Herter, Avena pseudosativa Thell. ex Malzev, Avena racemosa Thuill., Avena rubra Zuccagni, Avena sativa Willd., Avena sativa convar. nodipilosa (Malzev) Tzvelev, Avena sativa cv. montana Alef., Avena sativa cv. obtusata Alef., Avena sativa cv. pugnax Alef., Avena sativa cv. tristis Alef., Avena sativa fo. contracta Neilr., Avena sativa subsp. contracta (Neilr.) Čelak., Avena sativa subsp. macrantha (Hack.) Rocha Afonso, Avena sativa subsp. nodipilosa (Malzev) Vasc., Avena sativa var. aristata Schltdl., Avena sativa var. brunnea Körn., Avena sativa var. chinensis Döll, Avena sativa var. cinerea Körn, Avena sativa var. contracta Neilr., Avena sativa var. diffusa Neilr., Avena sativa var. eligulata Vavilov ex Mordv., Avena sativa var. flava Körn., Avena sativa var. glaberrima (Thell.) Maire & Weiller, Avena sativa var. glaberrima (Thell.) Parodi, Avena sativa var. grisea Körn., Avena sativa var. inermis Körn., Avena sativa var. ligulata Vavilov ex Mordv., Avena sativa var. macrantha Hack., Avena sativa var. mutica Schltdl., nom. illeg., Avena sativa var. nigra Haller, Avena sativa var. nigra Alph. Wood, nom. illeg., non Avena sativa var. nigra Schrank, Avena sativa var. orientalis (Schreber) Alefeld, Avena sativa var. praegravis Krause, Avena sativa var. secunda Alph. Wood, Avena sativa var. segetalis (Vavilov) Nevski, Avena shatilowiana Litv., Avena sterilis L., Avena sterilis fo. pseudosativa Thell., Avena sterilis var. algeriensis (Trab.) Trab., Avena sterilis var. thellungiana Malzev, Avena tartarica Ard., Avena tatarica Ard., Avena thellungii Nevski, Avena trabutiana Thell., Avena triseta Thunb., Avena unilateralis Brouss, ex Roem. & Schult., Avena verna Heuze, Avena volgensis (Vavilov) Nevski.

References regarding Avena sativa L. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Species Plantarum, Editio Secunda (1762)
· Spicilegium Florae Lipsicae (1771)
· Novi Commentarii Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Göttingensis (1775)
· Saggi scientifici e letterarj dell’Accademia di Padova (1789)
· Exercitia Phytologica (1792)
· Prodromus Plantarum Capensium, … (1794)
· Flore des Environs de Paris (1799)
· Collecteana (1809)
· Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta (1817)
· Topographische Nachrichten von der Insel Oesel (1823)
· Linnaea (1841)
· Rheinische Flora (1843)
· A Class-book of Botany ed. 2 (1847)
· Linnaea (1848)
· Flora von Nieder-Österreich (1859)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Transsilvaniae (1866)
· Landwirthschaftliche Flora (1866)
· Prodromus der Flora von Böhmen (1867)
· Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift (1870)
· Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft zu Jena (1885)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1885)
· Bulletin Agricole de l’Algérie et de la Tunisie (1910)
· Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich (1911)
· Index to the Linnean herbarium, with indication of … (1912)
· La flore adventice de Montpellier (1912)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1913)
· Journal of Heredity (1914)
· Revista Agronómica (Lisbon) (1931)
· Flora URSS (1934)
· Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, ser. 2 (1938)
· Revista Sudamericana de Botánica (1940)
· Flore de l’Afrique du Nord (1953)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)
· Enciclopedia Argentina de Agricultura y Jardineria (1959)
· Grasses of Burma (1960)
· Taxon (1974)
· N.Z. J. Agric. (1974)
· Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (1978)
· Grass. Saudi Arabia (1989)

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