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Page scope

UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710002 is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The accession rests on one herbarium sheet of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose label gives Afghanistan as its origin. They show that seed said to be Afghan was grown there; they do not show where in Afghanistan the seed was gathered, who supplied it or how it reached the university. No surviving seed of the lot has been traced. The page therefore carries no locality, coordinates, classification or conservation priority.

Identifier

The identifier UMS-AFG-UNK-0019710002 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence.

UMS stands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.
AFG is the ISO code for Afghanistan, the recorded seed origin.
UNK: no province is recorded.
Month 00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown.
Year 1971 is the year of the earliest dated sheet of the lot. The seed had reached the university by then; the year is not a collection date.

Lineage

The label gives no generation, so the sourcing type is Unknown provenance. No sheet in Harvard's index captured on 8 October 2026 (847 Cannabis sheets) is coded Af C, and the label does not say what the figure 17 marks. No label or source read so far ties this seed to af-b or to the 1972 lots, so no parent accession is set; the Afghan lots are linked only as related accessions.

The university's history names Afghanistan among the origins of the seed sown in 1968. No label or source read so far ties that seed to this lot, or says when or where in Afghanistan the seed was gathered.

Location and georeferencing

The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Afghanistan, not the place where the plants grew. The grow-out at University, Mississippi, is stated in the article. No coordinate is given and the map is off: a point in Mississippi would misplace Afghan seed, and no place in Afghanistan is recorded.

Dates

The collection date is left empty because the date the seed was gathered is unknown. 4 November 1971, the date of the sheet, is entered as the sample harvest date.

Label reading

The sheet has not been seen. The label text above is Harvard's transcription in its specimen index (read on 12 October 2026), where the lot code is in the collector-number field and the seed note in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.

The sheet gives the vernacular names Hemp, Indian Hemp, Fimble, Gallow Grass, Grass Marihuana, Marijuana, Hanf, Chanvre, and other, a general list that says nothing of Afghan usage, so it is not entered as a local name.
The seed note names no supplier and no date of receipt.
Harvard's botanist index lists the collector as Quimby, Mayhard Ward (born 1905), also known as M. W. Quimby. His 1973 paper in Economic Botany gives his first name as Maynard.
Harvard gives the month of Small's determination, August 1976, but no day.

Sources not yet read

M. W. Quimby, N. J. Doorenbos, C. E. Turner and A. Masoud described the cultivation and the morphological variation of Mississippi-grown cannabis in Economic Botany 27 (1973): 117–127 (doi:10.1007/BF02862224). The paper may identify the seed sources and explain the lot codes. It has not been read for this page, and nothing here depends on it.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 09:45, 12 October 2026 (+07)