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Page scope

UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001-R1 is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The accession rests on twenty-five herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels give Turkey as its origin. They show that seed said to be Turkish was grown there; they do not show where in Turkey the seed was gathered 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-TUR-UNK-0019720001-R1 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence, reproduction suffix.

UMS stands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.
TUR is the ISO code for Turkey, the recorded seed origin.
UNK: no province is recorded.
Month 00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown.
Year 1972 and the sequence are those of the original sample, T A (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001): a reproduction takes its parent line's identifier.
-R1: the generation the labels state.

Lineage

Three labels call T A1 the first generation of original sample; the others call it a first generation, with or without first seed lot. The original sample is T A, so the accession takes T A's identifier with the suffix -R1 and T A as its parent. Six labels name the year 1968, five of them as from 1968 harvest. Harvard's index holds no sheet of T A or T A1 from 1968; Quimby's three Turkish sheets of that year are coded D2, DZ and s.n. and their labels query the origin (Turkish?, Turkish??), so nothing links them to this chain. The sourcing type follows the labels' first generation.

Location and georeferencing

The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Turkey, 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 Turkish seed, and no place in Turkey is recorded.

Dates

The collection date is left empty because the date the seed was gathered is unknown. The sheets are dated 31 July to 1 August 1972, a range across two months, so the sample harvest date is stored as the year. The labels give no planting date.

The year 1968 on six labels (from 1968 harvest on five, 1968 alone on one) is not a date of these plants. It is quoted in the article and not entered in a date field.

Plant numbers

Each 1972 sheet of the lot carries a number of the form 63 A: a figure shared by every sheet of the lot (63), then a letter for the plant. The figure may be a plot or row number, but no label says so, and the article does not call it one.

Plants 63 C, 63 K, 63 M, 63 P and 63 S have two sheets each.
No sheet carries the number 63 R.
The two sheets of plant 63 C carry different glosses: first generation of original sample (01005239) and first seed lot, first generation from 1968 harvest (01005329).

Label reading

The sheets have not been seen. The label text above is Harvard's transcription in its specimen index (read on 8 October 2026), where the lot code and seed note are in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.

Harvard transcribes the code as T A 1, T A1 and TA1; the page writes T A1.
The collector field lists the three collectors as Harvard credits them. T. E. Lockwood is Tommie Earl Lockwood (1941–1975) in Harvard's botanist index.
The determination is Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, with no subspecies. The Thai and Vietnamese sheets of the same series were determined by Small on the same day as subsp. indica. The page reports the determinations as Harvard records them and draws nothing from the difference.

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.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 05:57, 9 October 2026 (+07)