Regel s.n., Karakol (1877)
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| Regel herbarium specimen, near Karakol, Issyk-Kul Region, Kyrgyzstan (1877), lectotype of var. asperrima | |
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| Regel s.n., Karakol (1877) | |
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| Regel s.n., the lectotype of var. asperrima, as photographed for McPartland and Small (2020), Fig. 6a (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | Kyrgyzstan |
| Province/State | Issyk-Kul Region |
| Locality | Near Karakol, by Lake Issyk-Kul |
| Coordinates | 42.49, 78.40 |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1 October 1877 |
| Collector | Johann Albert von Regel |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Komarov Botanical Institute |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. asperrima (Regel) McPartl. & E.Small |
| Identified By | J.M. McPartland & E. Small (2020) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Regel s.n., Karakol is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa gathered near Karakol, by Lake Issyk-Kul in the Issyk-Kul Region of Kyrgyzstan, on 1 October 1877 by Albert Regel. It is held by the herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute in St Petersburg (LE), and in 2020 John McPartland and Ernest Small designated it the lectotype of Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. asperrima.[1]: 100
Collection and locality
The printed label reads A. Regel. Iter Turkestanicum. 1877. and is completed by hand with the day and month, 1/X, the name Cannabis sativa L. γ asperrima Rgl. and the place ad lac. Issyk-kul prope Karakol (by Lake Issyk-Kul, near Karakol). A second, handwritten slip above it repeats the name.[1]: 101 McPartland and Small cite the sheet as gathered by A. Regel and determined by E. Regel, 1 October 1877.[1]: 100 Albert Regel was the son of the botanist Eduard Regel and a district physician at Kuldja (Yining).[2]: 22
Typification
Eduard Regel published Cannabis sativa γ asperrima in 1879 for plants near Lake Issyk-Kul, close to Karakol and the Dschirgalan (today the Jyrgalan) river, gathered by A. Regel, and designated no type. Two such sheets are at LE, both collected by Albert Regel; McPartland and Small describe both as badly pressed and chewed up, and chose the better preserved as the lectotype.[2]: 22 They designated Vavilov's Chekhosarai sheet of 1924 as an epitype, writing that Vavilov's specimen is much better preserved.[1]: 100–101
In their classification var. asperrima is the Central Asian wild-type.[1]: 100 Tropicos, as GBIF publishes it, records the sheet as the lectotype, collected by A. Regel near Karakol in the Issyk-Kul Region.[3]
Specimen and identification
The paper's photograph shows two long, bare stems and a mass of crowded fruiting branches strapped to the sheet, with a paper packet above the labels.[1]: 101 Regel's sheet from the Bortala of the following year, labelled Cannabis sativa β vulgaris, is in the same Iter Turkestanicum series.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 McPartland, J.M.; Small, E. (2020). "A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives". PhytoKeys. 144: 81–112. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 McPartland, J.M.; Small, E. (2020). "A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives". PhytoKeys. 144. Supplementary material 1. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700.
- ↑ "Occurrence 3115519399: Cannabis sativa var. asperrima (Regel) McPartl. & E.Small". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 October 2026.