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Page scope

NPG-CHN-LIA-0519060001 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 20058 (Inventory No. 13 (1908), pp. 59, 64) and the entry for PI 20058 in GRIN-Global, the database of the National Plant Germplasm System, as it stood on 27 October 2026. The inventory gives the explorer's number and date, the consul he had the seed from, and the town the consul had it from. 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-0519060001 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 20058.

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 05: May, the month the seed was gathered.
Year 1906 is the year the seed was gathered.
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 passed from Hai-tcheng to the consul and then to Meyer. The note praises the hemp but does not say who grew it or how, so the accession is classified Unknown.

Collectors and donors

GRIN-Global lists Meyer as collector. The printed note says Meyer had the seed from the consul, who had it from Hai-tcheng, so the infobox gives no collector; Meyer's number, 283a, is in the text.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory names Hai-tcheng as the town the consul had the seed from and nothing finer. The point 40.85, 122.75 is the point OpenStreetMap gives for the town of Haicheng (relation 2769679), a locality georeference for the place the source names, not a collection point. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 6 km, the town's built-up extent plus 1 km for the two-decimal form. Newchwang, where Meyer had the seed from the consul, is the port it passed through, not its source.

Dates

The collection date, 22 May 1906, is the date of Meyer's number, the day he had the seed from the consul, as both sources give it. The department received the consignment on 20 February 1907, the lot's received date.