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Amphibromus nervosus (lopsided oat)

Synonyms: Avena hydrophila (homotypic); Avena nervosa (heterotypic); Avenastrum nervosum (homotypic); Danthonia nervosa (heterotypic)

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [3]  Grass
Usage [1]  The straw has a wide range of uses such as for bio-mass, fibre, mulch, paper-making and thatching; Some caution is advised in its use as a mulch since oat straw can infest strawberries with stem and bulb eelworm.
Height [1]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Damp
View Plants For A Future Record : Amphibromus nervosus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Nahuel Huapi National Park II 759703 Argentina  

Predators

Phytomyza nigra[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Blumeria graminis[5]
Puccinia coronata[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0