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  • COMMON NAME: Common oat
  • ARABIC: شوفان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Avena sativa L.
  • SYNONYMS: Avena algeriensis Trab.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Other Uses (O)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Uncommon in the UAE ( Dibba).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:391732-1#synonyms
cultivated as a food plant.

Annual grasses. Culms 40-80 cm high, solitary or fasciculate, erect, smooth and glabrous. Leaf-blades glabrous. Inflorescence a widely spreading or nodding panicle. Spikelets large, mostly 2-flowered. Lemma not readily separating from the glumes; lemmas glabrous, with bifid, not setaceous tip. Awn usually single, straight, often absent. 

Flowering from February to May.
Plantations. Widely cultivated as a food plant (oat) in the world.
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