Mouret 1365 (1912)
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| Mouret 1365 herbarium specimen, Salé (1912) | |
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| Mouret 1365 (1912) | |
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| Mouret 1365, held by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle as P06886055 (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | Morocco |
| Province/State | Salé Prefecture |
| Locality | Salé |
| Coordinates | 34.05, -6.82 |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | June 1912 |
| Collector | Mouret |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle |
| Catalogue Number | P06886055 |
| Collector Number | Mouret 1365 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Mouret 1365 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa gathered at Salé, Morocco, in June 1912 by Lieutenant Mouret, an army officer who collected plants along the route from Rabat to Fez. The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris holds the sheet as P06886055.[1][2] Its label gives the habitat as décombres, rubble or waste ground.
Collection and locality
The sheet carries a printed label headed Flore du Maroc with the name C. J. Pitard printed at its foot. In manuscript it reads 1365, Cannabis sativa (a leaf fragment covers the middle of the name), Salé, décombres, leg. Mouret. and the date VI. 1912.[3] The catalogue records the number 1365 and holds the date as a span from 1 to 30 June 1912.[2]
Charles-Joseph Pitard published the gathering in 1913, in a list of the plants Mouret collected between Rabat and Fez in 1911 and 1912. The entry reads Cannabis sativa L. — Salé (VI)., giving the place and the month and no number or habitat.[4]: 174
The collector
Pitard introduces the list with an account of the collector. M. le lieutenant Mouret, then stationed at Fez, had spent his spare time since November 1911 collecting and identifying the plants of Morocco. He was already known for his collections from northern Tonkin, and he had sent his Moroccan plants to Jahandiez, who asked Pitard to study them.[4]: 164 Mouret was later killed in action: Pitard places his death in an assault on enemy trenches in Champagne, and René Maire in the Argonne in 1916.[5][6]
Context in the same volume
Pitard's own catalogue of the plants of the Chaouïa, printed in the same volume, has a separate entry for Cannabis sativa at Ber Rechid. It describes the species there as Subspontané ; décombres et lieux incultes, growing outside cultivation on rubble and uncultivated ground.[4]: 98
Specimen and identification
The sheet holds two stems: a tall, loosely flowered stem on the left and a compact leafy top on the right. An oval stamp of the museum's phanerogam herbarium overlaps the label, and a water stain runs across the sheet.[3] The catalogue records the name as Cannabis sativa L., with no determiner named, and publishes one image of the sheet under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.[2]
- ↑ "Specimen P06886055: Cannabis sativa L." MNHN collections. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Occurrence 731718633: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Digitised sheet P06886055: Cannabis sativa L." Herbier national, images. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Pitard, C.-J. (1913). Exploration scientifique du Maroc organisée par la Société de géographie de Paris. Premier fascicule. Botanique (1912) (in français). Paris: Masson et Cie. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ Pitard, J.-C. (1931). Contribution à l'étude de la flore du Maroc (in français). Paris: E. Le Moult. p. 3. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ Maire, René (1931). Les progrès des connaissances botaniques en Algérie depuis 1830 (in français). p. 174. Retrieved 4 October 2026.