Schlagintweit 4539 (1856)
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| Schlagintweit 4539 herbarium specimen, environs of Srinagar (1856) | |
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| Schlagintweit 4539 (1856) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Locality | Srinagar |
| Coordinates | 34.08, 74.80 |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | October 1856 |
| Collector | Schlagintweit |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | National Herbarium of Victoria |
| Catalogue Number | MEL 2413180A |
| Collector Number | Schlagintweit 4539 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Schlagintweit 4539 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa gathered by one of the Schlagintweit brothers in the environs of Srinagar, Kashmir, between 2 and 20 October 1856. The National Herbarium of Victoria in Melbourne holds the sheet as MEL 2413180A.[1][2]
Collection and locality
The herbarium's catalogue gives the locality as Drained lake basin of Kashmir, environs of Srinagger, within a circle of 8 miles radius. Kashmir. Western Himálaya., the words of the printed labels of the Schlagintweit herbarium, and the dates 2 to 20 October 1856. It records the number as Gen. No. of Catalogue 4539, the general catalogue number of that herbarium, and notes that it is not clear which of the three brothers then collecting in the region gathered the plant.[1]
Another sheet of the Schlagintweit herbarium from the same locality, Schlagintweit 4366 (1856), carries the dates 10 August to 30 September 1856 and the number 4366; it is a different gathering. McPartland and Small list a Schlagintweit sheet near Srinagar dated October 1856 at the Komarov Botanical Institute in St Petersburg.[3]
Specimen and identification
The catalogue files the sheet as Cannabis sativa L.[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "MEL 2413180A: Cannabis sativa". Australasian Virtual Herbarium. Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Occurrence 2438891064: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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 file 1, p. 78. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700.