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The genus Avena is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Avena

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Avena abyssinica Hochst.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena aemulans Nevski	Accepted		WCSP
Avena barbata Pott ex Link	Accepted		WCSP
Avena brevis Roth	Accepted		WCSP
Avena byzantina K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Avena chinensis (Fisch. ex Roem. & Schult.) Metzg.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena clauda Durieu	Accepted		WCSP
Avena eriantha Durieu	Accepted		WCSP
Avena fatua L.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena × haussknechtii Nevski	Accepted		WCSP
Avena hispanica Ard.	Accepted		TRO
Avena longiglumis Durieu	Accepted		WCSP
Avena maroccana Gand.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena murphyi Ladiz.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena nuda L.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena prostrata Ladiz.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena sativa L.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena saxatilis (Lojac.) Rocha Afonso	Accepted		WCSP
Avena sterilis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena strigosa Schreb.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena tenera (Kit. in Schultes) Nyman	Accepted		TRO
Avena vaviloviana (Malzev) Mordv.	Accepted		WCSP
Avena ventricosa Balansa	Accepted		WCSP
Avena volgensis (Vavilov) Nevski	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 596 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Avena. Of these 24 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 391 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Avena. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 596 species names for the genus Avena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24	4.0%
◕	Synonym	516	86.6%
◕	Unplaced	25	4.2%
◕	Unassessed	31	5.2%

All names

The status of the 987 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Avena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	4.1%
◕	Synonym	881	89.3%
◕	Unplaced	25	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	41	4.2%

Of these names,

• 80 are recorded as invalid
• 68 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 596 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Avena, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	427	0	0	449	75.3%
	Medium confidence	1	57	0	0	58	9.7%
	Low confidence	1	32	25	31	89	14.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Avena, are as follows: