Plant Details

Accepted name:: Avena byzantina K.Koch [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
colloidal oatmeal	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seed	powder	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Avena byzantina subvar. biaristata (Hack. ex Trab.) Maire & Weiller Fl. Afrique N. 2: 289 (1953).
Avena byzantina var. biaristata (Hack. ex Trab.) Thell. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 56: 228 (1909).
Avena byzantina var. hypomelanthera (Thell.) Parodi Encicl. Argent. Agric. Jard. 1: 127 (1959).
Avena sativa var. biaristata Hack. ex Trab. Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 49: 229 (1909), nom. illeg.
Avena sativa subsp. byzantina (K.Koch) Romero Zarco Lagascalia 18: 180 (1996).
Avena sterilis var. biaristata (Hack. ex Trab.) Thell. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 56: 316 (1911).
Avena sterilis subvar. biaristata (Hack. ex Trab.) Malzev Trudy Prikl. Bot., Prilož. 38: 399 (1930).
Avena sterilis subsp. byzantina (K.Koch) Thell. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 56: 316 (1911).
Avena sterilis f. hypomelanthera Thell. Recueil Trav. Bot. Néerl. 25a: 431 (1928).
Avena sterilis subvar. hypomelanthera (Thell.) Malzev Trudy Prikl. Bot., Prilož. 38: 398 (1930).
Avena sterilis var. hypomelanthera (Thell.) Parodi Encicl. Argent. Agric. Jard. 1: 127 (1959).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Avena byzantina C.Koch	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 32 (2008)
Avena byzantina K.Koch	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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