Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 79 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 34 [secondary reference]

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(2-4): 24 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 627 [secondary reference]

Nash, G.V. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Gramineae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 218 [secondary reference]

• Type: Avena sativa L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 72 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name for the Oat."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 103 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name for the Oat"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 36-37 [secondary reference]

Stanton, T.R. (1961), Oats & Oat Improvement: 75-111 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 538 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 33 [secondary reference]

Baum, B.R. (1977), Oats: Wild & Cultivated: 1-463 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1145 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 62-63 [secondary reference]

common name: Oats [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 37 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 433-434 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 941 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 119 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Avena. Flora of New South Wales 4: 587 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 456 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 236 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 449 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 405 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 104 (fig.), 106 (fig.), 161 -162 [secondary reference]

common name: Oats [n/a]

• Etymology: "the Latin name for 'oats'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 82 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Weiller, C.M., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Avena. Flora of Australia 44A: 122-123 [secondary reference]

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