| Avenula | |
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| Avenula pubescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Poodae |
| Tribe: | Poeae |
| Genus: | Avenula (Dumort.) Dumort. |
| Species: | A. pubescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Avenula pubescens (Huds.)Dumort. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Avenula is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family. Over 100 names have been proposed for species, subspecies, varieties, and other infraspecific taxa within Avenula, but only one species is accepted. The others names are all regarded as synonyms of other accepted names. The only recognized species in the genus is Avenula pubescens, commonly known as downy oat-grass or downy alpine oatgrass, native to Europe and Asia from Iceland and Portugal to Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Siberia. It is also naturalized in scattered locations in North America, in states as Connecticut, Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey and Vermont, and in Canadian provinces such as Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.
Other genera containing species once included in Avenula: Helictochloa, Helictotrichon and Tricholemma.
See also
References
- 1885 illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
- Dumortier, Barthélemy Charles Joseph . 1824. Observations sur les Graminées de la Flore Belgique 122 in Latin
- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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- Tropicos, Trisetum sect. Avenula Dumort
- "Helictotrichon pubescens". The Plant List. Retrieved 2014-11-08.
- Dumortier, Barthélemy Charles Joseph. 1868. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Belgique 7(1): 68 in Latin
- Tropicos, Avenula (Dumort.) Dumort.
- BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- "Avenula pubescens". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
- Röser, M., E. Döring, G. Winterfeld & J. Schneider. 2009. Generic realignments in the grass tribe Aveneae (Poaceae). Schlechtendalia 19: 27–38
- Valdes, B. & H. Scholz. 2006. The Euro+Med treatment of Gramineae - a generic synopsis and some new names. Willdenowia 36(2): 657–669.
- Altervista Flora Italiana, Avena pubescente , Downy Alpine Oatgrass, Avenula pubescens (Huds.) Dumort
- Flora of China, Vol. 22 Page 318 毛轴异燕麦 mao zhou yi yan mai, Helictotrichon pubescens (Hudson) Pilger, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 45: 6. 1938.
- "Avenula pubescens". USDA. PLANTS Profile. Retrieved May 24, 2013.