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Triticum turgidum; photograph (c) Joan Simon, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Joan Simon, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-07-06

Triticum turgidum L.

Rivet wheat; Wild Emmer; Wild Emmer Wheat; Cone wheat

Poaceae · Egypt, Kazakhstan +11

No habitat climate
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Summary

Triticum turgidum (with its various subspecies being known as pasta wheat, macaroni wheat and durum wheat) is a species of wheat. It is an annual and grows primarily in temperate areas and is native to countries around the eastern Mediterranean, down to Iran and east to Xinjiang, China.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Triticum turgidum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 450 of the 451 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeEgypt, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Xinjiang · introduced: Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Krym, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Canary Is., Madeira, Mauritania, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, West Siberia, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Myanmar, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New York, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Honduras · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker32.99, 35.69 · in the densest population, 162 records (36% of those in range)
Kew's description“annual” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 451 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 447 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 608 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 450 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 451 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Joan Simon, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Elliot Greiner, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Sue Carnahan, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Miriam Sachs Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Other Triticum 4 in the reference

Triticum aestivum Triticum aestivum Bread wheat Photo: CC BY, Corvi ZemanTriticum monococcum Triticum monococcum Einkorn Photo: CC BY, Sara NavarroTriticum timopheevii Triticum timopheevii Timopheev's wheat Photo: CC BY, C T Johansson Triticum urartu Red wild einkorn

Names & registers

Also known as Gigachilon polonicum subsp. turgidum; Triticum aestivum subsp. turgidum; Triticum aestivum var. turgidum; Triticum candissimum; Triticum cereale var. turgidum and 30 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan +10
Wild records
451 in range · 447 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 17 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (12 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 5 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Triticum turgidum L. (the item's: IPNI 425995-1, POWO 316216-2)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 58 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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