Anders 4869 (1970)

Anders 4869 herbarium specimen, Dab (1970)
Anders 4869 (1970)
At a Glance
Classification	Unknown
Location
Country	Afghanistan
Province/State	Kunar Province
Locality	Dab
Elevation	900 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	20 August 1970
Collector	O. Anders
Specimen
Repository	Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Catalogue Number	W 1997-0005268
Collector Number	Anders, O. 4869
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist
Identified By	K.H. Rechinger (1976)
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Anders 4869 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected on a spring-fed slope at Dab, four kilometres south of Jalala in the Kunar valley, Afghanistan, at 900 metres on 20 August 1970 by Olaf Anders. The Natural History Museum, Vienna holds the sheet as W 1997-0005268.

Collection and locality

The label, in Vienna's transcription, reads Konar, Konartal, 4 km S Jalala, Quellhang bei Dab, 900 m, that is, in the Kunar valley, four kilometres south of Jalala, on a spring slope at Dab. It gives the date 20 August 1970 and the collector's number 4869. Jalālah and Dab are villages of Kunar Province, Dab 3.6 kilometres south of Jalālah.

Specimen and identification

Anders's own determination was Cannabis sativa. Karl Heinz Rechinger redetermined the plant subsp. indica in 1976, and the sheet is filed under that name. The catalogue notes that leaf tissue was removed from the sheet for DNA analysis for C. F. Grassa in 2018.