Koelz 4612 (1933)
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| Koelz 4612 herbarium specimen, Baijnath (1933) | |
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| Koelz 4612 (1933) | |
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| Koelz 4612, held by the New York Botanical Garden as catalogue 1414434 (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Unknown |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| District | Kangra District |
| Locality | Baijnath |
| Coordinates | 32.05, 76.67 |
| Elevation | 914 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 22 May 1933 |
| Collector | W. N. Koelz |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | New York Botanical Garden |
| Catalogue Number | 1414434 |
| Collector Number | Koelz 4612 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | E. H. Walker; E. Small (1975) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
| Genebanks and Sequence Data | |
Sequence data
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Koelz 4612 is an accession record for a pressed herbarium specimen of Cannabis sativa collected by Walter Koelz at Baijnath, then recorded in Kangra, Punjab, on 22 May 1933. Baijnath is now in Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh, India.[1][2] The New York Botanical Garden holds the sheet as catalogue 1414434.[3] GBIF publishes it as occurrence 1930577957.[4]
Collection and locality
Koelz's field label is headed Botanical collections in northwestern India and records Baijnath, Kangra, Punjab, an altitude of 3,000 feet, collection number 4612 and the date 22 May 1933.[5] The stated altitude converts to approximately 914 m. Kangra remained part of Punjab until its transfer to Himachal Pradesh in 1966.[2]
Specimen and identification
The sheet bears an identification of Cannabis sativa L. by E. H. Walker.[5] The sheet carries a handwritten '5 ft.' observation and mounts two fruiting branches.[5] In August 1975, Ernest Small redetermined the specimen as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist, the name under which GBIF publishes the occurrence.[5][4]
Other sheets
The Smithsonian Institution's United States National Herbarium holds another sheet of the gathering, US 1608265, catalogued under W. N. Koelz with the number 4612 and the date 22 May 1933.[6] Its catalogue gives the country as India and no place below it. The Harvard University Herbaria hold a third, barcode 00449855 in the Gray Herbarium, which Harvard's index gives under the number 4612 with the locality Kangra, Punjab, the date 22 May 1933 and the remark 5 ft.[7]
Sequence data
Leaflets from this sheet were sampled for DNA by a herbarium-genomics project coordinated by Christopher J. Grassa of Harvard University, and the sample was sequenced by Marco Todesco at the University of British Columbia. The European Nucleotide Archive made it public as BioSample SAMEA112688674 on 24 February 2025; it gives the voucher as NY:1414434, this sheet, and the tissue as Leaflets removed from original specimen voucher.[8]
- ↑ "Project area: list of clusters". Himachal Pradesh Sub-Tropical Horticulture, Irrigation and Value Addition. Government of Himachal Pradesh. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About Kangra". Apna Kangra. Government of Himachal Pradesh. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Koelz 4612, Cannabis sativa, catalogue 1414434". Virtual Herbarium. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Occurrence 1930577957: Cannabis sativa subsp. indica". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Digitised sheet 1414434: Koelz 4612". Virtual Herbarium image service. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 1318113041: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00449855". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 8 October 2026.
- ↑ "BioSample SAMEA112688674: Cannabis from Herbarium NY, Grassa sample 1CJG1882". BioSample. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
