Johnston s.n., Logar (1879)
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| Johnston herbarium specimen, Logar (1879) | |
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| Johnston s.n., Logar (1879) | |
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| Johnston s.n., held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as E00405506 (CC BY-SA 2.5) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Logar Province |
| Locality | Logar |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1879 |
| Collector | J.W. Johnston |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E00405506 |
| Collector Number | Johnston, J.W. s.n. |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Johnston s.n., Logar is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa from Logar, Afghanistan, presented to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Dr J. W. Johnston with a collection labelled Afghanistan, 1879-1880. The catalogue dates the gathering to 1879. Edinburgh holds the sheet as E00405506.[1][2]
Collection and locality
The sheet carries an early printed label of the herbarium, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh., on which the name Cannabis sativa L. and the place Logar: Afghanistan. are written by hand. Its printed foot reads Afghanistan, 1879-1880., Dr J. W. Johnston. and Presented.[3] The label gives no day, month or single year and no collector number. The catalogue gives the locality as Afghanistan:Lowgar:Logar and the year as 1879, which GBIF repeats.[1][2]
Specimen and identification
The sheet holds a single shoot, dry and leafy. The label and the catalogue determine it as 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 E00405506: Cannabis". RBGE Herbarium Catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Occurrence 575282725: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Digitised sheet E00405506, IIIF manifest". RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.