Wang 846 (1933)

Wang 846 herbarium specimen, Shang Hsien, Shensi (1933)
Wang 846 (1933)
At a Glance
Classification	Landrace
Location
Country	China
Province/State	Shaanxi
Locality	Shang Hsien
Coordinates	33.89, 109.86
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	19 September 1933
Collector	T. P. Wang
Specimen
Repository	Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Catalogue Number	PE 00557967
Collector Number	Wang 846
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	W. Y. Hsia
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Wang 846 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected from cultivation in Shang Hsien (Shang County, now Shangzhou District), in Shaanxi (then Shensi), China, on 19 September 1933 by a collector named on the labels as T. P. Wang. The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing holds a sheet as PE 00557967, and the Northwestern Institute of Botany in Yangling a second as WUK0001288.

Collection and locality

The sheet carries a typed label of the herbarium of the Institute of Botany, National Academy of Peiping, headed Distributed from (國立北平研究院植物學研究所標本室贈). It gives the locality Shensi: Shang Hsien, the collector T. Wang with a faded middle initial, the field number 846 and the date Sept. 19, 193, the last digit of the year running into the printed word Det. A pale blue tag tied to the stem has faded blank. The catalogue gives the collector as T. F. Wang, the number 846, the year 1933 and Shaanxi. The Yangling sheet carries the institute's typed Flora of China form, which gives the number W. 846, the date 19/9/1933 and the locality Shang Hsien, Shensi (cult.): the plant came from cultivation. Its herbarium label reads Shensi: Shang Hsien, Sept. 19, 1933 and Leg. T.P.Wang.(846). Det. W.Y.Hsia, with the year in full and the middle initial P.

Specimen and identification

The sheet carries a leafy, branched top with palmate leaves of narrow, serrate leaflets and small flower clusters; insects have holed some of the leaves. The label names it Cannabis sativa Linn., determined by W. Y. Hsia. The Yangling sheet carries a large leafy top with a dense female inflorescence. 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.