Taxon: Triticum turgidum L. subsp. turanicum (Jakubz.) Á. Löve & D. Löve

Genus:

Triticum

Section:

Dicoccoidea

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Triticeae

Subtribe:

Triticinae

Nomen number:

406899

Place of publication:

Bot. Not. 114:49. 1961

Link to protologue:

Comment:

[or T. turgidum Turanicum Group]

Typification:

Name Verified on:

20-mar-1998 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 07-mar-2017

Species priority site is:

National Small Grains Collection (NSGC)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(≡) Gigachilon polonicum subsp. turanicum (Jakubz.) Á. Löve
(=) Triticum orientale Percival
(=) Triticum orientale var. bandirmaicum Gökgöl
(=) Triticum orientale var. daralagesi Tumanian
(=) Triticum orientale var. ferghanicum Kobelev
(=) Triticum orientale var. insigne Percival
(=) Triticum orientale var. notabile Percival
Basionym: Triticum turanicum Jakubz.
(=) Triticum turanicum var. bandirmaicum (Gökgöl) Gökgöl
(=) Triticum turanicum var. daralagesi (Tumanian) Udachin
(=) Triticum turanicum var. ferghanicum (Kobelev) Udachin
(=) Triticum turanicum var. gazimustafakemalii (Gökgöl) Gökgöl
(=) Triticum turanicum var. generosum (Gökgöl) Gökgöl
(=) Triticum turanicum var. insigne (Percival) Gökgöl
(=) Triticum turanicum var. jalovanianum (Gökgöl) Gökgöl
(=) Triticum turanicum var. notabile (Percival) Gökgöl
(=) Triticum turanicum var. odsissianum (Zhuk.) Udachin
(=) Triticum turanicum var. pseudobandirmaicum Gökgöl, nom. inval.
(=) Triticum turanicum var. pseudogenerosum Gökgöl, nom. inval.
(=) Triticum turanicum var. pseudojalovanianum Gökgöl, nom. inval.
(=) Triticum turanicum var. rarissimum Gökgöl, nom. inval.
(=) Triticum turanicum var. turanaffine Mustafaev
(=) Triticum turanicum var. turanalexandrinum Mustafaev
(=) Triticum turanicum var. turanimurciense Mustafaev
(=) Triticum turanicum var. turaninigrum Mustafaev
(=) Triticum turanicum var. turaniprovinciale Mustafaev
(=) Triticum turanicum var. turanobscurum Mustafaev
(=) Triticum turanicum var. wimshurstii Udachin

Common names:

Khorassan wheat (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
Oriental wheat (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
Khorassanweizen (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
khorasanvete (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
za sheng xiao mai (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

Human food: starch (fide Cornucopia, as T. turanicum)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Iran
CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
MIDDLE ASIA: Uzbekistan

References:

Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Triticum turgidum L. subsp. turanicum (Jakubz.) Á. Löve & D. Löve :

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
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.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=406899. Accessed 27 octubre 2025.