Hedge W 9486 (1969)
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| Hedge and Wendelbo W 9486 herbarium specimen, Yawarzan to Qeshm (1969) | |
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| Hedge W 9486 (1969) | |
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| Hedge and Wendelbo W 9486, held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as E00405497 (CC BY-SA 2.5) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Feral |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Badakhshan Province |
| Locality | between Yawarzan and Qeshm |
| Elevation | 1200 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 5 July 1969 |
| Collector | I.C. Hedge |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E00405497 |
| Collector Number | Hedge, I.C. & Wendelbo, P. W 9486 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | K.H. Rechinger (1977) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Hedge W 9486 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at a field's edge between Yawarzan and Qeshm, in the province of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, at about 1,200 metres on 5 July 1969 by Ian Charleson Hedge and Per Wendelbo. The label records the plant as common in the area. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds the sheet as E00405497.[1][2]
Collection and locality
The typed Flora of Afghanistan label reads Prov. Badakshan: between Yawarzan and Qeshm. and Fieldside. Common in the area up to 1.8 m., with the altitude c. 1200 m and the date 5 July 1969. The collectors are printed I. Hedge, P. Wendelbo & L. Ekberg, with Ekberg's name struck through, and the number is W 9486.[3] The catalogue gives the same locality, collectors, number and date, with no habitat or altitude.[1] Yawarzan and Keshem, the label's Qeshm, are about 16 kilometres apart.
Specimen and identification
The label names the plant Cannabis sativa L. A revision slip of the Natural History Museum, Vienna, printed for Flora Iranica, redetermines the sheet in Karl Heinz Rechinger's name in 1977: subsp. indica (Lam.) Small + Cronquist.[3] The catalogue keeps Cannabis sativa L.[1] Edinburgh publishes the sheet image under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.[3]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Herbarium specimen E00405497: Cannabis". RBGE Herbarium Catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 574852113: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Digitised sheet E00405497, IIIF manifest". RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.