Singh 48 (1928)
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| Singh 48 herbarium specimen, Dehradun (1928) | |
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| Singh 48 (1928) | |
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| Singh 48, held by the New York Botanical Garden as catalogue 1414441 (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Unknown |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Uttarakhand |
| District | Dehradun District |
| Locality | Dehradun |
| Coordinates | 30.33, 78.04 |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1928 |
| Collector | U. Singh |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | New York Botanical Garden |
| Catalogue Number | 1414441 |
| Collector Number | Singh 48 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa var. kafiristanica (Vavilov) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | E. Small (1975) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
| Provenance Evidence | |
| Identity Confirmation | A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives |
| Genebanks and Sequence Data | |
Sequence data
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Singh 48 is an accession record for a pressed herbarium specimen of Cannabis sativa collected by U. Singh at Dehra Dun, United Provinces, in 1928. The locality is now generally written Dehradun and lies in Dehradun District, Uttarakhand, India.[1] The New York Botanical Garden holds the sheet as catalogue 1414441.[2] GBIF publishes it as occurrence 1928007078.[3]
Collection and locality
The collection label is headed Herbarium, California Botanical Garden, Plants of India and records Dehra Dun, United Provinces, collection number 48, U. Singh and the year 1928.[4] Current district sources identify Dehra Dun as the earlier form of the city and district name Dehradun.[1]
Specimen and identification
The sheet mounts a fruiting plant and carries the name Cannabis sativa L.[4] In August 1975, Ernest Small determined it as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. kafiristanica (Vavilov) E.Small & Cronquist, the name under which GBIF publishes the occurrence.[4][3]
Other sheets
Three more sheets are catalogued under Singh's number 48 and the year 1928. The herbarium of the University of California, Los Angeles (LA) holds two: LA00672537, whose catalogue gives the place as Dehra Dun; United Provinces,[5] and a second sheet catalogued under the collector Umrao Singh with the place United Provinces; Dehradun.[6] The herbarium of the South China Botanical Garden (IBSC) holds the third, 602899, with no place.[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 SAMEA112688681 on 24 February 2025; it gives the voucher as NY:1414441, this sheet, and the tissue as Leaflets removed from original specimen voucher.[8]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About District". District Dehradun. District Administration Dehradun, Government of Uttarakhand. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Singh 48, Cannabis sativa, catalogue 1414441". Virtual Herbarium. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Occurrence 1928007078: Cannabis sativa var. kafiristanica". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Digitised sheet 1414441: Singh 48". Virtual Herbarium image service. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 5139191476: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 6502289386: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 4042677412: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ "BioSample SAMEA112688681: Cannabis from Herbarium NY, Grassa sample 8CJG1889". BioSample. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
