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Aegilops triuncialis Linn., Sp. Pl. 2:1051. 1753. Boiss., Fl. Or. 5:674. 1884 (excl. var. kotschyi); Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:321. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 654. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:190. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70: 198. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 158. 1976; Tutin & Humphries in Tutin et al., Fl. Fur. 5:201. 1980.
Triticum triunciate (Linn.) Rasp.
Culms tufted, 15-45 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades hairy or glabrous, up to 10 cm long, 1-2 mm wide. Spikes 3-6 cm long (excluding the awns), tapering towards the tip, with 1-2 vestigial spikelets at the base; rhachis sometimes breaking up at maturity. Fertile spikelets (3-)4-6, without any reduced spikelets above: glumes of lowest spikelet 7-10 mm long, usually with 3 teeth, 2-3 of which form awns; awns of terminal spikelet 3-6 cm long, distinctly longer than those of the lateral spikelets.
Type locality: France etc.
Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan); southern Europe eastwards to southern USSR (Central Asia).
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