Koelz 8456 (1936)
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| Koelz 8456 herbarium specimen, Kolong (1936) | |
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| Koelz 8456 (1936) | |
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| Koelz 8456, held by the New York Botanical Garden as catalogue 1414438 (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Unknown |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| District | Lahaul and Spiti District |
| Locality | Kolong |
| Coordinates | 32.60, 77.14 |
| Point type | Settlement point |
| Uncertainty | about 2 km |
| Elevation | 3353 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 20 June 1936 |
| Collector | W. N. Koelz |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | New York Botanical Garden |
| Catalogue Number | 1414438 |
| Collector Number | Koelz 8456 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | RRS; E. Small (1975) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
| Genebanks and Sequence Data | |
Sequence data
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Koelz 8456 is an accession record for a pressed herbarium specimen of Cannabis sativa collected by Walter Koelz at Kolung, Lahul, Punjab, on 20 June 1936. The locality is now generally written Kolong and lies in Lahaul and Spiti District, Himachal Pradesh, India.[1] The New York Botanical Garden holds the sheet as catalogue 1414438.[2] GBIF publishes it as occurrence 1929707380.[3]
Collection and locality
Koelz's Plants of India label records Kolung, Lahul, Punjab, an altitude of 11,000 feet, collection number 8456 and the date 20 June 1936.[4] The stated altitude converts to approximately 3,353 m. Current Himachal Pradesh government records list Kolong in the Lahaul block of Lahaul and Spiti District.[1]
Specimen and identification
The sheet bears an identification of Cannabis sativa L. initialled "RRS" and mounts fruiting branches.[4] In August 1975, Ernest Small redetermined the specimen as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist, the name under which GBIF publishes the occurrence.[4][3]
Sequence data
Leaflets from this sheet were sampled for DNA by a herbarium-genomics project coordinated by Christopher J. Grassa of Harvard University, and the sample was sequenced by Marco Todesco at the University of British Columbia. The European Nucleotide Archive made it public as BioSample SAMEA112688678 on 24 February 2025; it gives the voucher as NY:1414438, this sheet, and the tissue as Leaflets removed from original specimen voucher.[5]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "District/block-wise name of Gram Panchayats" (PDF). Department of Panchayati Raj, Government of Himachal Pradesh. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Koelz 8456, Cannabis sativa, catalogue 1414438". Virtual Herbarium. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Occurrence 1929707380: Cannabis sativa subsp. indica". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Digitised sheet 1414438: Koelz 8456". Virtual Herbarium image service. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "BioSample SAMEA112688678: Cannabis from Herbarium NY, Grassa sample 5CJG1886". BioSample. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
