Hsia 1923 (1930)

Hsia 1923 herbarium specimen, Peitaiho (1930)
Hsia 1923 (1930)
Hsia 1923, held by the New York Botanical Garden as 01414418 (CC BY 4.0)
At a Glance
Classification	Feral
Location
Country	China
Province/State	Hebei
Locality	Peitaiho (Beidaihe)
Coordinates	39.82, 119.48
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	20 June 1930
Collector	W. Y. Hsia
Specimen
Repository	New York Botanical Garden
Catalogue Number	1414418
Collector Number	Hsia 1923
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Hsia 1923 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Peitaiho (Beidaihe), on the coast of Hebei, China, on 20 June 1930 by W. Y. Hsia, and distributed by the Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Peiping. The New York Botanical Garden holds a sheet as 01414418, and the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing two more, PE 00557918, PE 00557921 and, in Yangling, a fourth, WUK0001285, held by the Northwestern Institute of Botany.

Collection and locality

The printed bilingual label reads 國立北平研究院植物學研究所標本室贈 and Distributed from Herbarium of Institute of Botany, National Academy of Peiping, China. It is completed Loc. Hopei: Peitaiho, Coll. W.Y. Hsia, Field No. 1923 and Date June 20, 1930; the line for the determiner is blank. The catalogue gives the same place, number and date and adds the habitat Roadside, which is not on the New York label. The two Beijing sheets carry the typed field form: the number H.1923, the date 20/6/1930, the locality Peitaiho, Hopei, the habitat road side, the family Moraceae and the collector W.Y.Hsia. One also carries the distribution label of the New York sheet, the other the label of the Herbarium Academiae Nationalis Pekinensis, determined by Hsia himself. The Yangling sheet carries the same field form, a tag numbered 1923 and the label of the Herbarium Academiae Nationalis Pekinensis: Hopei: Peitaiho, June 20, 1930, Leg. W.Y.Hsia (1923). Det. W.Y.Hsia. The Chinese Virtual Herbarium publishes its sheet images under a non-commercial, no-derivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0); they are read and cited here, not reproduced.

Specimen and identification

The sheet carries several thin stems with small clusters of leaves. The label and a second slip name the plant Cannabis sativa L., the name the catalogue records. The Yangling sheet carries four young plants with their roots and palmate leaves.