Triticum monococcum subsp. aegilopoides information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Triticum monococcum L. subsp. aegilopoides (Link) Thell.

Genus: Triticum section: Monococcon
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Triticeae.
Nomen number: 40598
Place of publication: Naturwiss. Wochenschr. 33:470. 1918 (P. F. A. Ascherson & K. O. R. P. P. Graebner, Syn. mitteleur. Fl. 2:701. 1901, without rank)
Comment: diploid species
Name verified on: 20-Mar-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Oct-2008
Species priority site is: National Small Grains Collection (NSGC).
Accessions: 918 in National Plant Germplasm System.

See other conspecific taxa:

Triticum monococcum (no accessions)
Triticum monococcum subsp. monococcum (214 accessions)

Common names:

wild einkorn (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
wild einkorn wheat (Source: Food Feed Crops US [as T. baeoticum]) – English
wilder Einkornweizen (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. baeoticum]) – German
escaña menor silvestre (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. baeoticum]) – Spanish

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

Gene sources: primary genetic relative of einkorn wheat (fide Kuckuck 1982, as T. baeoticum)

Distributional range:

Native:

ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq [n.]; Syria [w.]; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
EUROPE
East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece

References:

Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US) [= T. baeoticum].
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [= T. baeoticum].
Slageren, M. W. van. 1994. Wild wheats: a monograph of Aegilops L. and Amblyopyrum (Jaub. & Spach) Eig. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 94–7:89.

Synonyms:

(≡) Crithodium aegilopoides Link (basionym)
(≡) Crithodium monococcum subsp. aegilopoides (Link) Á. Löve
(≡) Triticum aegilopoides (Link) Balansa ex Körn.
(=) Triticum aegilopoides race thaoudar Hausskn.
(=) Triticum boeoticum Boiss.
(previously associated with 264 accessions)
(=) Triticum boeoticum subsp. boeoticum
(previously associated with 624 accessions)
(=) Triticum boeoticum subsp. thaoudar (Hausskn.) E. Schiem.
(previously associated with 7 accessions)
(=) Triticum monococcum subsp. boeoticum (Boiss.) Hayek
(previously associated with 7 accessions)
(=) Triticum thaoudar (Hausskn.) Reut. ex Nevski
(previously associated with 6 accessions)

Check other databases for Triticum monococcum L. subsp. aegilopoides (Link) Thell.:

Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
Spikelet: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40598 (09 February 2010)

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