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Page scope

NPG-CHN-UNK-1019250001 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 65618 (Inventory No. 85 (1928), pp. 25–26) and the entry for PI 65618 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 man he had the seed from and his home, and a description of the seed. 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-UNK-1019250001 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 65618.

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.
UNK: no province is recorded.
Month 10: October, the month the seed was gathered.
Year 1925 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 came from one man, and the entry does not say who grew it or where, so the accession is classified Unknown.

Collectors and donors

GRIN-Global lists Dorsett and L. B. Smearnoff. The printed entry says the seed was obtained from Smearnoff, so the infobox gives no collector; Dorsett's number, 4571, is in the text.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory names Echo, L. B. Smearnoff's home, and nothing more. No place of that name has been matched to a settlement on today's map, so the page has no point and no province; the map is off.

Dates

The collection date, 25 October 1925, is the date of Dorsett's number, the day he had the seed from Smearnoff, as both sources give it. Both give the month of receipt only, December 1925, which is the received date.