Triticum urartu

Triticum urartu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Triticum
Species:
T. urartu
Binomial name
Triticum urartu
Thumanjan ex Gandilyan
Synonyms
  • Crithodium urartu (Gandilyan) Á.Löve
  • Triticum michaelii Zhuk. nom. inval.

Triticum urartu, also known as red wild einkorn wheat, and a form of einkorn wheat, is a grass species related to wheat, and native to western Asia. It is a diploid species whose genome is the A genome of the allopolyploid hexaploid bread wheat Triticum aestivum, which has genomes AABBDD.