Barat s.n., Sig (1850)

Barat herbarium specimen, Sig (1850)
Barat s.n., Sig (1850)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	Algeria
Province/State	Mascara Province
Locality	Sig
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	1850
Collector	Barat
Specimen
Repository	Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
Catalogue Number	P06780078
Collector Number	Barat s.n.
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Barat s.n., Sig is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa credited to a collector named Barat and dated 1850. Its locality reads Cultivé à l'Union du Sig près Oran and its event note reads Originaire de l'Orient, so the sheet records both cultivation at Sig in western Algeria and a claim about where the stock came from. The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris holds the sheet as catalogue P06780078. GBIF publishes it as occurrence 731738640.

Collection and locality

The locality is transcribed as Cultivé à l'Union du Sig près Oran and the event note as Originaire de l'Orient. The first states cultivation; the second states that the plant came from the East, without naming a place, a supplier or a date of introduction.

The date is held as a span from 1 January to 31 December 1850, the form this catalogue uses where only a year is known. No habitat, altitude or collection number is carried.

Sig lies in Mascara Province, east of Oran. A second sheet of the same year and the same establishment, Durando s.n., Sig (1850), gives its locality as Cultivé à l'Union agricole du Sig and is dated between 21 June and 22 September.

Specimen and identification

The catalogue records the preparation as a herbarium sheet and the name as Cannabis sativa L., with no determiner named. One image of the sheet is published with the occurrence, under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.