Faurel s.n., Maison-Carrée (1930)
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| Faurel herbarium specimen, El Harrach (1930) | |
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| Faurel s.n., Maison-Carrée (1930) | |
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| Faurel s.n., held by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle as P06879996 (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Feral |
| Location | |
| Country | Algeria |
| Province/State | Algiers Province |
| Locality | El Harrach |
| Coordinates | 36.72, 3.14 |
| Point type | Settlement point |
| Uncertainty | about 5 km |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 16 April 1930 |
| Collector | L. Faurel |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle |
| Catalogue Number | P06879996 |
| Collector Number | Faurel, L. s.n. |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Faurel s.n., Maison-Carrée is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa credited to Louis Faurel and dated 16 April 1930. Its label reads Terres incultes près des dunes de Maison-Carrée, environs d'Alger and names the plant Cannabis sativa var. Kif A. DC. The sheet places the plant on uncultivated ground by the dunes at Maison-Carrée, now El Harrach on the eastern edge of Algiers, in Algeria. The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris holds the sheet as catalogue P06879996.[1] GBIF publishes it as occurrence 731718197.[2]
Collection and locality
The label is printed HERBIER L. FAUREL and written in one hand: Cannabis sativa L., var. Kif A. DC., Terres incultes près des dunes de Maison-Carrée, environs d'Alger and 16-4-1930.[3] The catalogue splits the habitat from the place, giving the locality as Près des dunes de Maison-Carrée, environs d'Alger and the event note as Terres incultes, with the date 16 April 1930.[1][2] No altitude or collection number is given.
Maison-Carrée is El Harrach, a town at the mouth of the Oued El Harrach that is now a district of Algiers, in Algiers Province.[4] A sheet from the agricultural institute in the same town twelve years later, Pasquier s.n., Maison-Carrée (1942), records the opposite condition: a plant raised under glass from Saharan seed.[5]
Louis Faurel lived from 1907 to 1973 and worked on the Algerian flora, so a gathering of 1930 falls inside his working life, in his early twenties.[6]
Specimen and identification
The sheet holds one whole plant with its root. The label names it Cannabis sativa L. var. Kif A. DC.,[3] the variety Alphonse de Candolle described in 1869 for the cannabis cultivated in Algeria under the names kif and tekrouri.[7] The labels of Pasquier s.n., Maison-Carrée (1942) and Simonneau s.n., Igli (1960) give the same varietal name. The catalogue records the preparation as a herbarium sheet and the name as Cannabis sativa L., with no determiner named.[1][2] A leaf sample was taken from the sheet in March 2021 for C. J. Grassa at Harvard University, under request 156515, the same sampling that reached Steinheil s.n., Bône (1834).[2] One image of the sheet is published with the occurrence, under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Specimen P06879996: Cannabis sativa L." MNHN collections. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Occurrence 731718197: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Digitised sheet P06879996: Cannabis sativa L." Herbier national, images. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "El Harrach, Algiers, Algeria". Nominatim. OpenStreetMap Foundation. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 731718383: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ "Faurel, Louis (1907-1973)". International Plant Names Index. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria and Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ Candolle, Alphonse de (1869). Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (in Latina). Vol. 16, part 1. Paris: Victor Masson et fils. p. 31.