Wang 83330 (1939)

Wang 83330 herbarium specimen, Mong-tze Hsien, Yunnan (1939)
Wang 83330 (1939)
At a Glance
Classification	Feral
Location
Country	China
Province/State	Yunnan
Locality	Mong-tze Hsien, Moo-bei
Coordinates	23.33, 103.48
Elevation	1900 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	6 October 1939
Collector	C. W. Wang
Specimen
Repository	Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Catalogue Number	PE 00578081
Collector Number	Wang 83330
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	Y. Liu
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Wang 83330 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected on a mountain slope in Mong-tze Hsien (Mengzi), in Yunnan, China, at 1,900 m on 6 October 1939 by C. W. Wang. The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing holds a sheet as PE 00578081, and the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences a second as KUN 0169116.

Collection and locality

The sheet carries a typed field slip: C.W.WANG 83330 oct.6, 1939, the place Mong-tze Hsien, Moo-bei., the altitude alt. 1900 m, the habitat Mt. slope and fl green. A tag of the Yunnan collection carries the number in red. The catalogue gives the collector as 王启无, the number, the date, the altitude, the habitat 山坡 (mountain slope) and Yunnan. The Kunming sheet carries a later form of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Kunming Work Station, filled in by hand with the number 83330, the date oct. 6. and a cramped year, a place in cursive characters, the altitude 1900 m, green flowers and the collector 王啓無. Its printed tag, Yunnan Wang & Liu, has a name struck through in red between the two; it is numbered 83330 and dated (1939-40).

Specimen and identification

The sheet carries a male plant with large palmate leaves and a dense terminal panicle. A slip names it Cannabis sativa Linn., determined by Y. Liu in 1954. The Kunming sheet carries a leafy stem with large palmate leaves and a loose male panicle, and a typed slip, Cannabia sativa L. as typed, determined by H. Chuang and dated 72.9. Wang had gathered cannabis at A-tun-tze, in the north of the province, four years earlier: Wang 69367 (1935). The Chinese Virtual Herbarium publishes its sheet images under a non-commercial, no-derivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0); they are read and cited here, not reproduced.