Cave s.n., Tista (1913)
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| Cave herbarium specimen, Tista valley (1913) | |
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| Cave s.n., Tista (1913) | |
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| Cave s.n., Tista, held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as catalogue E00248815 (CC BY-SA 2.5) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Unknown |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | West Bengal |
| Coordinates | 27.07, 88.42 |
| Point type | Settlement point |
| Uncertainty | about 26 km |
| Elevation | 305 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1 July 1913 |
| Collector | G. H. Cave |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E00248815 |
| Collector Number | Cave, G. H. s.n. |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Cave s.n., Tista is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected by G. H. Cave on the Tista at 1,000 feet, about 305 m, on 1 July 1913. The Tista, now usually written Teesta, runs out of Sikkim into West Bengal, India. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds the sheet as catalogue E00248815.[1] GBIF publishes it as occurrence 574898198.[2]
Collection and locality
The sheet carries one typed label, headed HERB. HORT. BOT. REG. EDIN. and FLORA OF EASTERN HIMALAYA. Under the name Cannabis sativa L. it gives Tista with 1,000 ft. on one line and Coll. G. H. Cave with 1.7.1913 on the next.[3]
The label names no district, no bank of the river and no habitat. The catalogue carries no locality.[3][1] Cave was curator of the Lloyd Botanic Garden at Darjeeling from 1904 to 1928 and collected through Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills with William Wright Smith.[4]
Specimen and identification
The mounted material is a leafy branch with broad leaflets and small flower clusters in the axils, pressed with several side shoots.[3] The typed label names the plant Cannabis sativa L. The catalogue records it under the same name and gives the collector as Cave, George H.[3][1]
Other sheets
The Harvard University Herbaria hold another sheet under Cave's name, barcode 00449853 in the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum. Harvard's index gives its locality as Tista, its altitude as 1000 ft and its date as 1 July 1913, the place, altitude and day of this sheet's label, and files it as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, determined by Ernest Small in August 1975.[5]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Cannabis sativa L., specimen E00248815". Herbarium catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 574898198: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Digitised sheet E00248815: Cannabis sativa L." RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ Blake, Dean. "Students' Stories: George Herbert Cave". Botanics Stories. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00449853". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 8 October 2026.