Spikelets produce 2 or 3 kernels which are long, narrow, white and hard. This wheat is grown in the Mediterranean Area and the Near East, but not in the United States. This is a latematuring spring wheat with leaf blades that are pubescent on both sides. Spikes are very compact, rather short, somewhat pyramidal in shape with soft, thin, rather short awns. Spikelets usually contain two kernels.
Kernels are medium long, slender and hard or flinty.
It is not grown in the united States. Both winter and spring forms ocur. Spikes are awned, slender, narrow, flattened, and fragile. Spikelets contain only a single fertile flower and thus produce only one seed. Seeds are pale red, slender, flattened, almost without crease, and remain in the spikelets after threshing.