Taxon: Triticum aestivum L. subsp. spelta (L.) Thell.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Triticum aestivum (3 accessions)
• Triticum aestivum subsp. aestivum (46590 accessions)
• Triticum aestivum subsp. compactum (116 accessions)
• Triticum aestivum subsp. macha (31 accessions)
• Triticum aestivum subsp. sphaerococcum (32 accessions)
• Triticum aestivum subsp. tibeticum (no accessions)
• Triticum aestivum subsp. yunnanense (no accessions)

Common names:

• dinkel wheat   (Source: Cornucopia [as T. spelta]) – English
  
• hulled wheat   (Source: Prom Underused Crops ) – English
  
• spelt   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• spelt wheat   (Source: Food Feed Crops US [as T. spelta]) – English
  
• épeautre   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. spelta]) – French
  
• Dinkel   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. spelta]) – German
  
• Spelz   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. spelta]) – German
  
• farro   (Source: Prom Underused Crops ) – Italian
  
• espelta   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. spelta]) – Portuguese
  
• escaña   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. spelta]) – Spanish
  
• escanda   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. spelta]) – Spanish
  
• espelta   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. spelta]) – Spanish
  
• speltvete   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: cereal   (fide L Edible Pl, as T. spelta)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide L Edible Pl, as T. spelta)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of wheat   (hexaploid fide Kuckuck 1982, as T. spelta)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2, as T. spelta)
  

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. [= T. spelta].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. [= T. spelta].
• Padulos, S. et al., eds. 1996. Hulled wheats. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 4:1–269.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= T. spelta].
• Slageren, M. W. van. 1994. Wild wheats: a monograph of Aegilops L. and Amblyopyrum (Jaub. & Spach) Eig. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 94–7:94.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Triticum aestivum var. spelta (L.) Fiori
  
• (≡) Triticum spelta L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1222 accessions)

Check other web resources for Triticum aestivum L. subsp. spelta (L.) Thell.:

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

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Caryopses: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Floret and caryopsis: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets and caryopses: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Spikelet: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Typical spikes: National Small Grains Collection image

More:

• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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