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Avena abyssinica; photograph Schubbay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SASchubbay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Avena abyssinica Hochst.

Ethiopian Oat; Abyssinian oat

Poaceae · Djibouti, Eritrea +1

No habitat climate
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Summary

Avena abyssinica, also known as the Ethiopian oat and "Ajja" by Ethiopians, is a member of the family Poaceae. This grain has long been used in Ethiopia and is well adapted to the high elevations and other conditions there. Still a traditional food plant in Africa, this little-known grain has potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Avena abyssinica", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 251 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 251 of the 251 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDjibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia · introduced: Saudi Arabia, Yemen · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker9.167, 38.767 · in the densest population, 184 records (73% of those in range)
Kew's description“annual” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 251 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 18 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 251 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 251 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Avena 8 in the reference

Avena barbata Avena barbata Slender oat Photo: CC BY, Em LamondAvena brevis Avena brevis Short oat Photo: Public domain, Daderot Avena byzantina Algerian Oat Avena fatua Avena fatua Wild oat Photo: CC BY, Мирослав СоболевAvena nuda Avena nuda Naked oat Photo: Public domain, DaderotAvena sativa Avena sativa Oat Photo: CC0, author not statedAvena sterilis Avena sterilis Animated oat Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaAvena strigosa Avena strigosa Bristle oat Photo: CC BY-SA, Miquel Pujol Palol

Names & registers

Also known as Avena abyssinica f. glaberrima; Avena abyssinica var. baldratiana; Avena abyssinica var. chiovendae; Avena abyssinica var. hildebrandtii; Avena abyssinica var. neoschimperi and 15 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
Hochst.
Native to
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Wild records
251 in range · 251 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21251 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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