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Taxon:  Triticum turgidum L. subsp. durum (Desf.) Husn. (Triticum turgidum Durum Group)



Summary
Genus:
Triticum
Section:
Dicoccoidea
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Triticeae
Subtribe:
Triticinae
Nomen number:
406896
Place of publication:
Graminees 4:80. 1899
Comment:
[or T. turgidum Durum Group]
Verified:
03/20/1998 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
11731 (11228  active, 9502  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Triticum turgidum L. (357 active accession[s])
Triticum turgidum L. subsp. carthlicum (Nevski) A. Love & D. Love (130 active accession[s])
Triticum turgidum L. subsp. dicoccoides (Korn. ex Asch. & Graebn.) Thell. (650 active accession[s])
Triticum turgidum L. subsp. dicoccon (Schrank) Thell. (261 active accession[s])
Triticum turgidum L. subsp. palaeocolchicum A. Love & D. Love (2 active accession[s])
Triticum turgidum L. subsp. polonicum (L.) Thell. (69 active accession[s])
Triticum turgidum L. subsp. turanicum (Jakubz.) A. Love & D. Love (35 active accession[s])
Triticum turgidum L. subsp. turgidum (100 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Triticum durum Desf.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Gigachilon polonicum (L.) Seidl subsp. durum (Desf.) A. Love
Triticum turgidum L. var. durum (Desf.) Bowden

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds. 1996. Cereals. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 10:140.
  2. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  3. Morrison, L. 2002. pers. comm.
  4. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  5. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  6. Slageren, M. W. van. 1994. Wild wheats: a monograph of Aegilops L. and Amblyopyrum (Jaub. & Spach) Eig. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 94-7:91.
  7. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994-
Common names
English
durum wheat –
hard wheat –
kamut –
macaroni wheat –
French
blé dur –
German
Durumweizen –
Glasweizen –
Makkaroniweizen –
Italian
frumento duro –
Portuguese
trigo-duro –
Spanish
trigo moruno –
trigo-duro –
Swedish
durumvete –
Transcribed Chinese
ying li xiao mai –
Distribution
Cultivated ()
Economic Uses
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=406896. Accessed 29 March 2025.

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