Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Avena atherantha C. Presl
• (=) Avena barbata subsp. atherantha (C. Presl) Rocha Afonso
• (=) Avena ludoviciana Durieu
• (=) Avena ludoviciana var. ludoviciana Durieu
• (=) Avena ludoviciana var. subsolida Thell.
• (=) Avena ludoviciana var. thellungiana Malzev
• (=) Avena persica Steud.
• (-) Avena sterilis f. sterilis L.
• (=) Avena sterilis subsp. atherantha (C. Presl) H. Scholz
• (=) Avena sterilis subsp. ludoviciana (Durieu) Gillet & Magne
• (-) Avena sterilis subsp. sterilis L.
• (=) Avena sterilis subvar. secundae Malzev
• (=) Avena sterilis var. brevipila Malzev
• (=) Avena sterilis var. calvescens Trab. & Thell.
• (=) Avena sterilis var. calviflora Malzev
• (=) Avena sterilis var. glabrescens (Durieu) Thell.
• (=) Avena sterilis var. glabriflora Malzev
• (=) Avena sterilis var. media Malzev
• (-) Avena sterilis var. sterilis L.

Common names:

• animated oat  (Source: AH 505) - English
• sterile oat  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• wild oat  (Source: USDA/APHIS) - English
• wild red oat  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• winter wild oat  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• avoine animée  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• avoine stérile  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Winterhafer  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• aveão  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• avena caballuna  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• avena estéril  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• avena loca  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• storhavre  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• oves besplodny  (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian
• oves sredizemnomorskij  (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: potential as fodder (as progenitor of fodder cultivars)
• Vertebrate poisons:
• Weed: potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Madeira Islands] Spain [Canarias]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia (n.)

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Egypt, [Sinai] Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.w.), Pakistan

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Czech Republic, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Estonia, Lithuania, Russian Federation, [Volgograd] Ukraine, [Krym] Ukraine [Krym]
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)


Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)

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