Triticum diccocoides
Triticum dicoccoides
Yabani gernik
Annual. Stems to 150 cm, glaucous, puberulent at nodes. Lower leaf sheaths white-pilose. Leaf blades puberulent on abaxial and/or adaxial surface. Spike laterally compressed, 4-6 x 0.7 cm. Rachis fragile, densely hairy at nodes and margins, internodes 4-5 mm. Spikelets 3-flowered; 1-2 fertile, long-awned, uppermost rudimentary, unawned. Glumes lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 10-15 mm, coriaceous, glabrous or sericeous-pilose, 2-keeled; one keel very prominent with projecting, 1 mm tooth. Fertile lemma navicular, 10-15 mm, glabrous, with 10-12 cm scabrid awn, awn of lower floret slightly longer than that of upper. Fl. 6.Dry mountain slopes, c.1650 m.
Transcaucasia, W. Syria, N. Iraq, W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
