Linnaeus, C. (1762), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 1: 118 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Hispania."

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 192 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8): 71 [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]

common name: Sterile Oat [n/a]

Baum, B.R. (1977), Oats: Wild & Cultivated: 334-350 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Avena persica Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Avena ludoviciana Durieu legitimate taxonomic synonym: Avena sterilis ludoviciana (Durieu) Gillet & Magne legitimate

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 31 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Avena. Flora of New South Wales 4: 589 [secondary reference]

common name: Sterile Oats [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 450 [secondary reference]

common name: Sterile Oat [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 163 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Sterile Oats [n/a]

Weiller, C.M., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Avena. Flora of Australia 44A: 124, Plate 10, Fig. 16E-F APC [secondary reference]

common name: Sterile Oats [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Sáez, L., Aedo, C. & Romero-Zarco, C. (2017), (2495) Proposal to conserve the name Avena sterilis (Poaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 66(1): 203 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Typus: Spain, Cádiz, near Vejer de la Frontera, laguna de La Janda (36°13′45″ N, 5°52′48″ W), 1 Mai 1981, Romero C75/81 (SEV No. 79889; isotypus: MA), typ. cons. prop."
• Text: "Avena sterilis L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 118. Sep 1762 [Angiosp.: Gram.], nom. cons. prop."

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 11 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Avena ludoviciana Durieu legitimate

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