Vavilov s.n., Kafiristan (1924)
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| Vavilov herbarium specimen, Kafiristan (1924), grown at Kamennaya Step in 1925 | |
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| Vavilov s.n., Kafiristan (1924) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Accession Type | Reproduction |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Nuristan Province |
| Locality | Kafiristan |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1924 |
| Harvest Date | 1925 |
| Collector | N.I. Vavilov |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Komarov Botanical Institute |
| Catalogue Number | LE 607, 5667 |
| Collector Number | Vavilov, N.I. s.n. |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa |
| Genebanks and Sequence Data | |
Sequence data
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Vavilov s.n., Kafiristan is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa grown in 1925 at the Kamennaya-Stepnaya Experiment Station, Voronezh Oblast, Russia, from seed that Nikolai Vavilov collected in 1924 in Kafiristan, the present-day Nuristan Province of Afghanistan. The sheet is in the herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) in St Petersburg.[1]: 81[2] In 1976 Ernest Small and Arthur Cronquist cited a Kafiristan sheet of Vavilov's at LE, Vavilov 5667, among the representative specimens of C. sativa subsp. indica var. kafiristanica.[3]: 429
Collection and locality
Vavilov gathered the seed in Kafiristan during his 1924 expedition to Afghanistan. Tatiana Serebriakova raised the plant from it in 1925 at the Kamennaya-Stepnaya Experiment Station, Voronezh Oblast.[1]: 7, 81 In the BioSample's English translation the label reads Afghanistan. Kafirystan. 1924 and Reprod. Stone steppe. Voronezh province. 1925.[2]
The label
The label is printed with the heading of the herbarium of the All-Union Institute of Applied Botany and New Crops, Herzen Street 44, Leningrad, in Russian and French.[2] The Department of Applied Botany and Plant Breeding took that name in 1924. Vavilov's researchers in Petrograd were working at 44 Herzen Street by 1921.[4]: 18, 26 The label carries the numbers 607 and 5667 and the collector's name, Vavilov.[2] McPartland and Small cite the sheet as LE 607,5667, labelled C. sativa var. spontanea.[1]: 81
Specimen and identification
Small and Cronquist placed the sheet in var. kafiristanica, which they defined to include indigenous or well-established weedy and naturalised plants of C. sativa subsp. indica.[3]: 429 In 2020 John McPartland and Small listed it among the forms intermediate between var. indica and var. afghanica.[1]: 81 The BioSample names the organism Cannabis sativa.[2]
Sequence data
Leaflets were removed from the sheet for a herbarium-genomics project coordinated by Christopher J. Grassa of Harvard University, with Marco Todesco of the University of British Columbia named as sequencer. The material was provided by Leonid V. Averyanov. The European Nucleotide Archive made the sample public on 22 February 2025 as BioSample SAMEA112676497, voucher LE<RUS>:CJG0653, the project's own sample code.[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 McPartland, J.M.; Small, E. (2020). "A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives". PhytoKeys. 144. Supplementary material 1. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "BioSample SAMEA112676497: Cannabis from Herbarium LE, Grassa sample 0CJG0653". BioSample. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Small, Ernest; Cronquist, Arthur (August 1976). "A practical and natural taxonomy for Cannabis". Taxon. 25 (4): 405–435. doi:10.2307/1220524.
- ↑ Loskutov, Igor G. (1999). Vavilov and his Institute: a history of the world collection of plant genetic resources in Russia. Rome: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. ISBN 92-9043-412-0.