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Page scope

NPG-CHN-LIA-0019060001 is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

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Evidentiary scope

The accession rests on two sources: the department's printed inventory entry for plant introduction 17528 (Inventory No. 12 (1907), p. 42) and the entry for PI 17528 in GRIN-Global, the database of the National Plant Germplasm System, as it stood on 27 October 2026. The inventory names the district official who sent the seed, the consul it came through, and a description of the kind of hemp. GRIN-Global states that the lot "no longer exists and can not be requested", so the page gives the lot as gone. No conservation priority is assigned.

Identifier

The identifier NPG-CHN-LIA-0019060001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence. The department's own number for the lot is PI 17528.

NPG stands for the National Plant Germplasm System of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose database, GRIN-Global, carries the department's plant introductions.
CHN is the ISO code for China.
LIA stands for Liaoning.
Month 00: the date the seed was gathered is not known.
Year 1906 is the year the department received the lot.
0001 is the lot's place, in plant-introduction order, among the holder's lots from the same country, province, month and year.

Classification

The seed came from the magistrate of a district. The note names a kind of hemp but does not say it was grown in that district or by whom, so the accession is classified Unknown.

Collectors and donors

GRIN-Global lists T. Sammons, of the United States consulate at Niuchwang, as its source; the printed inventory says the seed came from the Chinese magistrate of the Hai-cheng district through him. No one is said to have gathered it, so the infobox gives no collector.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory names the Hai-cheng district and no place within it. The old district is today's Haicheng, a county-level city of Liaoning. The point 40.85, 122.75 is the point OpenStreetMap gives for Haicheng (relation 2769679), the district's seat, taken as an area point for the district, not the place the seed was grown. Basis: district point. Uncertainty: about 30 km, the radius of Haicheng's area (about 2,700 km²).

Dates

The date the seed was gathered is not known, so the collection date is empty. Both sources give 12 February 1906 as the date of receipt, the lot's received date. The identifier therefore carries month 00 and the year of receipt.