Triticum urartu

Triticum urartu, also known as red wild einkorn wheat,^[3] 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.^[4]

Triticum urartu
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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[2]
Crithodium urartu (Gandilyan) Á.Löve Triticum michaelii Zhuk. nom. inval.