Adamson 2872 (1940)

Adamson 2872 herbarium gathering, Keurboom Park, Rondebosch (1940)
Adamson 2872 (1940)
Adamson 2872, the sheet held by the Bolus Herbarium as BOL0222088 (CC BY 4.0, University of Cape Town)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	South Africa
Province/State	Western Cape
Locality	Keurboom Park
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	1940-04-07
Collector	R. S. Adamson
Specimen
Repository	Bolus Herbarium (BOL)
Catalogue Number	BOL0222088
Collector Number	Adamson, R.S. 2872
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	R. S. Adamson
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Adamson 2872 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Keurboom Park in the Western Cape, South Africa, on 7 April 1940 by R. S. Adamson. The Bolus Herbarium (BOL) holds the sheet as BOL0222088. It is the one Cannabis sheet the Bolus Herbarium holds, out of 263,769 records.

The record

The portal gives the collector and determiner as R. S. Adamson, the number as 2872, the date as 7 April 1940, the locality as South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, Rondebosch, Keurboom Park., the habitat as Disturbed soil. and the description as Male flowers.

The label

The sheet is stamped HERBARIUM BOLUSIANUM and carries a printed card headed Botanical Department - University of Cape Town. It reads Adamson No. 2872, Name Cannabis sativa L., Locality Rondebosch - Keurboom Park, Habitat Disturbed soil, Date Ap. 7. 940 Coll. by R. S. Adamson, and at the foot male flowers abbreviated, with Det. by R.S.A.

Specimen and identification

The determination is Cannabis sativa L., made by the collector. Robert Stephen Adamson was professor of botany at the University of Cape Town and in charge of the Bolus Herbarium.