Chien 152 (1941)

Chien 152 herbarium specimens, Sanqing Ge, Kunming (1941)
Chien 152 (1941)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	China
Province/State	Yunnan
Locality	三清閣左山 (the hill left of the Sanqing Ge)
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	18 September 1941
Collector	簡
Specimen
Repository	Peking University
Catalogue Number	PEY0036149
Collector Number	Chien 152
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	H. Chuang
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Chien 152 is a herbarium accession of a male and a female plant of Cannabis sativa collected on the hill to the left of the Sanqing Ge (三清閣), in the Western Hills of Kunming, Yunnan, China, on 18 September 1941 by a collector whose note gives only the surname 簡 (Chien). Peking University holds the male sheet as PEY0036149, and the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences the female sheet as KUN 0169102.

Collection and locality

PEY0036149 carries a note written by hand, with no printed label: Cannabis sativa L. and 大麻, 簡 152A and ♂ flowers, the place 三清閣左山 (the hill to the left of the Sanqing Ge), open meadow, shrub, a line not read, and the colours of the calyx (green or tinged with purple) and of the anthers (greenish yellow). A tag tied to the stem reads 1941, 9.18, 152 and A, and the number 2747 is pencilled on the sheet. KUN 0169102 carries a slip on squared paper, 聯大 152B, R.N. 2747, Sept. 18Th. 1941 and Cannabis, and a tag reading 1941, 9.18, 152 and B; it names no place. The catalogue gives 简 and the year 1941 for the first sheet, and 联大, the number 2747 and the year 1941 for the second, both in Yunnan.

Specimen and identification

PEY0036149 carries a long leafy stem, bent to fit the sheet, with palmate leaves of five to seven broad, coarsely serrate leaflets and clusters of open male flowers; KUN 0169102 a large, leafy branched top with dense clusters of female flowers in the upper leaf axils. A typed slip on the Kunming sheet names the plant Cannabis sativa L., determined by H. Chuang and dated 72.9. 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.