Sha 436 (1932)

Sha 436 herbarium specimen, Liushutai, Shantung (1932)
Sha 436 (1932)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	China
Province/State	Shandong
Locality	柳樹台 (Liushutai)
Coordinates	36.20, 120.58
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	16 July 1932
Collector	F. H. Sha
Specimen
Repository	Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Catalogue Number	PE 00557941
Collector Number	Sha 436
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Sha 436 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Liushutai (柳樹台), on the Lao Shan massif in Shandong, China, on 16 July 1932 by F. H. Sha for the University of Tsingtao. The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing holds the sheet as PE 00557941.

Collection and locality

The label is a printed form of the herbarium of the University of Tsingtao (國立青島大學植物標本室), headed Plants of Shantung (山東省植物名錄) and completed by hand. It gives the locality 柳樹台, the habit herb, the flower colour white, the field number 436, the collector F. H. Sha and the date VII/16/1932. The catalogue gives the collector, number, year and Shandong.

Specimen and identification

The sheet carries several stems with narrow serrate leaflets and a flowering branch. The form names the plant Cannabis sativa L. in its notes line, and a later slip Cannabilis sativa L. C. Y. Chiao had gathered cannabis on Lao Shan in 1930, at a place his label calls Niu Shu Tai: Chiao 2698 (1930). 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.