Timopheev's Wheat is a tetraploid wheat

Wheat

Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

 that has both cultivated and wild forms. The domesticated form is restricted to western Georgia

Georgia (country)

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, while the wild form (formerly categorized as T. araticum Jakubz.) can be found across south-eastern Turkey

Turkey

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, north Iraq

Iraq

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, west Iran

Iran

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 and Transcaucasia.

Timopheev's wheat is believed to have evolved in isolation from the more common Triticum turgidum, and hybrids between T. timopheevii and T. turgidum are reportedly sterile with "a considerable amount of chromosomal irregularities in meiosis".