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Avena barbata

Ahuriri Estuary, Napier.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 16/12/2015, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Avena barbata.<br>Photographer: John Barkla, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>.

Avena barbata.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

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Common names

slender oat

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Grasses

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Poaceae

Authority

Avena barbata Link

Ecology

Year naturalised

1974

Origin

Mediterranean

Other information

Etymology

avena: Ancient Latin name for oats.

barbata: From the Latin ‘barbus’, meaning bearded or provided with tufts of long weak hairs

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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