Hewer 1411 (1969)
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| Hewer 1411 herbarium specimen, Kamdesh (1969) | |
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| Hewer 1411 (1969) | |
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| Hewer 1411, held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as E00405508 (CC BY-SA 2.5) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Feral |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Nuristan Province |
| Locality | Kamdesh |
| Elevation | 1126 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 8 June 1969 |
| Collector | T.F. Hewer |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E00405508 |
| Collector Number | Hewer, T.F. 1411 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | K.H. Rechinger (1977) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Hewer 1411 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Kamdesh, in the province its label calls Konar, Afghanistan, at about 1,126 metres on 8 June 1969 by Professor T. F. Hewer. The label calls the plant one of the commonest weeds of the place. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds the sheet as E00405508.[1][2]
Collection and locality
The sheet carries two handwritten labels headed Ex Herberio Kewensi. The fuller one reads Afghanistan : Konar Province, Kamdesh, One of the commonest 'weeds' grows everywhere. and alt. c.1126 m., with the printed Coll. Prof. T. F. Hewer No. completed as 1411. 8.6.1969. The second repeats the name, the province, the number and the date.[3] The catalogue gives the locality as Afghanistan:Konar:Kamdesh and the date as 8 June 1969, and has no habitat or altitude.[1] Kamdesh is today in Nuristan Province.
Specimen and identification
The labels name 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] The heading Ex Herberio Kewensi marks the sheet as one that came from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Edinburgh publishes the sheet image under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.[3]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Herbarium specimen E00405508: Cannabis". RBGE Herbarium Catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 575176140: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Digitised sheet E00405508, IIIF manifest". RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.