Talk:Poilane 2365 (1920)

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Poilane 2365 (1920) 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 label reads Cultivé chez les Meos de Ban na Punh (cultivated among the Meo of Ban Na Punh), in Xieng Khouang, on 19 November 1920, and the catalogue gives the same words. The label gives the name Laotien: Ko phai meo (in Lao, Ko phai meo) and describes the plant as Chanvre de 2m50 de haut (hemp 2.5 m tall). It records no use. Drug-type cannabis from different regions began to be cross-bred, and its seed carried into old growing areas, in the 1970s (McPartland and Small 2020, pp. 84–85), so a hybrid origin is not considered for a sheet gathered in 1920. The accession is classified Landrace, by inference from the label and the catalogue. The sheet does not show what became of the crop or whether its seed survives, and no conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

Ban na Punh was not found in OpenStreetMap by Nominatim. Xieng Khouang resolves, but as a province and a town, not as the village the label names. No coordinate is asserted.

Editorial treatment

The local name field holds the label's romanisation, Ko phai meo. The Lao script that follows it on the label is legible as script but was not transcribed: the published image does not carry it cleanly enough to set the characters down, and a wrong transcription would be worse than none.

Meos is the label's exonym and is quoted, not replaced. Whether the article may equate Meo with the Hmong is an open question of 22 September 2026, and it is not equated here. The Thai label of Suvannasuddhi 457 carries the parallel compound ป่านแม้ว, "Meo hemp".

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 17:25, 23 September 2026 (+07)

Meo and the Hmong

Michaud and Culas (1997, pp. 79–80, 86) and Filbeck (1987, p. 129) give Meo as the older exonym of the Hmong, the name the Hmong use for themselves. The note above that left the equation open predates these sources. The article links the label's Meo to the Hmong and keeps the label's spelling in quotation. Éloise 20:15, 21 October 2026 (+07)