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Taxon: Triticum turgidum L.

Genus: Triticum section: Dicoccoidea
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Triticeae.
Nomen number: 410371
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:86. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-Mar-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Oct-2008
Species priority site is: National Small Grains Collection (NSGC).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • cone wheat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • durum wheat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • emmer   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon]
  • emmer wheat   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon]
  • Georgian emmer   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. karamyschevii]) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. paleocolchicum]
  • hard wheat   (Source: Pap AU Wagen 94-7:91) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • hulled wheat   (Source: Prom Underused Crops ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon]
  • kamut   (Source: L. Morrison, p.c. [via email on 19 Dec 2002]) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • Khorassan wheat   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. turanicum]) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turanicum]
  • macaroni wheat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • Oriental wheat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turanicum]
  • Persian black wheat   (Source: Pap AU Wagen ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. carthlicum]
  • Persian wheat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. carthlicum]
  • Polish wheat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. polonicum]
  • poulard wheat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • rivet wheat   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • rivet wheat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • wild emmer   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides]
  • wild emmer wheat   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides]
  • bo lan xiao mai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Triticum turgidum subsp. polonicum]
  • ying li xiao mai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • yuan zhui xiao mai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • za sheng xiao mai   (Source: F ChinaEng [as T. turanicum]) – Transcribed Chinese   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turanicum]
  • amidonier   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. dicoccon]) – French   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon]
  • blé de Pologne   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. polonicum]) – French   [Triticum turgidum subsp. polonicum]
  • blé dur   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. durum]) – French   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • blé poulard   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • Durumweizen   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. durum]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • Glasweizen   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. durum]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • Khorassanweizen   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. turanicum]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turanicum]
  • kolchischer Emmer   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. karamyschevii]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. paleocolchicum]
  • Makkaroniweizen   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. durum]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • persischer Weizen   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. carthlicum]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. carthlicum]
  • polnischer Weizen   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. polonicum]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. polonicum]
  • wilder Emmer   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. dicoccoides]) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides]
  • wilder Emmer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • farro   (Source: Prom Underused Crops ) – Italian   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon]
  • trigo-branco   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. dicoccon]) – Portuguese   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon]
  • trigo-da-Polonia   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. polonicum]) – Portuguese   [Triticum turgidum subsp. polonicum]
  • trigo-duro   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. durum]) – Portuguese   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • esaña almidora   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. dicoccon]) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon]
  • escaña silvestre   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. dicoccoides]) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides]
  • trigo de Persia   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. carthlicum]) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. carthlicum]
  • trigo moruno   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. durum]) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]
  • trigo moruno   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • trigo polaco   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. polonicum]) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. polonicum]
  • trigo poulard   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. turgidum]
  • trigo-duro   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. durum]) – Spanish   [Triticum turgidum subsp. durum]

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Iran [w.]; Iraq [n.]; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey [e.]

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Triticum turgidum L.:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images 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.
Jump to GrainGenes: A database for Triticeae and Avena

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?410371 (09 February 2010)

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