Secale montanum

{{Short description|Species of plant in the genus Secale}}

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|image=Secale montanum - Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg - DSC07869.JPG

|image_caption=Secale montanum at the Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg

|genus=Secale

|species=montanum

|authority=Guss.Index Seminum (Boccadifalco) 1825: 11 (1825)

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• Frumentum secale E.H.L.Krause
• Secale chaldicum Fed.
• Secale dalmaticum Vis.
• Secale kuprijanovii Grossh.
• Secale kuprijanovii subsp. ciscaucasicum N.R.Ivanov & Yakovlev
• Secale kuprijanovii subsp. transcaucasicum N.R.Ivanov & Yakovlev
• Secale montanum subsp. chaldicum (Fed.) Tzvelev
• Secale montanum subsp. kuprijanovii (Grossh.) Tzvelev
• Secale strictum (C.Presl) C.Presl
• Secale strictum subsp. chaldicum (Fed.) H.Scholz
• Secale strictum subsp. kuprijanovii (Grossh.) K.Hammer

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Secale montanum, wild perennial rye, is a species in the rye genus Secale native to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus region, and eastwards through Iran to Pakistan.{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:421183-1 |title=Secale montanum Guss. |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=23 September 2020 }} It is a short-lived, self-fertile perennial. It is thought to be the ultimate parent of domesticated rye (Secale cereale), and crosses with S. cereale have had some success in creating fodder cultivars.{{cite journal |last1=Akgün |first1=İlknur |date=2016 |title=Comparing Some Cytological and Morphological Characters of Diploid and Autotetraploid Perennial Rye (Secale montanum Guss.) |url=http://www.uaiasi.ro/revagrois/PDF/2016-2/paper/2016-59(2)_26-en.pdf |journal=Lucrari Stiintifice-seria Agronomie |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=141–146 |access-date=24 September 2020 }}{{cite journal |pmid=17247691 |year=1957 |last1=Stutz |first1=H. C. |title=A Cytogenetic Analysis of the Hybrid Secale cereale L. × Secale montanum Guss. and its Progeny |journal=Genetics |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=199–221 |doi=10.1093/genetics/42.3.199 |pmc=1209825 }} Some authorities consider the synonym Secale strictum C.Presl. to have priority.{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:421193-1 |title=Secale strictum (C.Presl) C.Presl |author= |date=2017 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=24 September 2020 }}