Nair & Nordal 4090 (1959)
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| Nair & Nordal 4090 herbarium specimen, Kalaw (1959) | |
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| Nair & Nordal 4090 (1959) | |
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| Nair & Nordal 4090, Kalaw, January 1959: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo O-V-2003823 (CC BY-SA 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Shan Hills |
| Growing Area | Myelat |
| Location | |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Province/State | Shan State |
| Locality | Kalaw |
| Coordinates | 20.64, 96.57 |
| Traditional Names | |
| Local Name | Se-gyauk |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 2 January 1959 |
| Collector | D. M. N. Nair,A. S. Nordal |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Natural History Museum, University of Oslo |
| Catalogue Number | O-V-2003823 |
| Collector Number | 4090 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa var. indica (Lam.) Wehmer |
| Identified By | D. M. N. Nair |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Nair & Nordal 4090 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa gathered at Kalaw, in the south-west of Shan State, Myanmar, on 2 January 1959 by Dewan Mohinder Nath Nair and Arnold Nordal. The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo holds the sheet as O-V-2003823.[1][2]
Collection and locality
The sheet carries a typed label of the Pharmacognostical Herbarium of Dr. A. Nordal, headed Flora of BURMA, with the number 4090 and the date 2.1.59. It gives the locality as KALAW and the remark A planted shrub, perennial with palmate compound leaves; dioecious. Female plants medicinal. The Burmese name is written in by hand as Se-gyauk; the English name is typed as The HEMP PLANT.[3] The Oslo catalogue gives the same place, number and remark, reads the date as 2 January 1959, and names the collectors as Dewan Mohinder Nath Nair and Arnold Nordal.[2]
Three other sheets in the Oslo herbarium were gathered by the two men at Kalaw on the same day, and three more on the way from Kalaw to Thazi the next day.[4]
Collectors
Nordal was professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Oslo from 1948 to 1969. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked in Burma as a United Nations expert, collecting information on Burmese medicinal plants and judging which of them could be grown on a large scale for export; his final report on the country's pharmaceutical raw materials was published in Rangoon in 1959.[5] The Oslo herbarium holds 66 sheets from his Burmese collecting, nearly all gathered with Nair and most of them in 1958, around Maymyo, Taunggyi, Kalaw and Rangoon, and the catalogue gives a note on medicinal properties for most of them.[4]
Specimen and identification
The sheet holds a single tall branch, leafy and flowering, with narrow leaflets. A typed slip at the foot repeats 4090. Cannabis sativa L.[3] The label names the plant Cannabis sativa L., with var. indica added by hand, and gives Nair as the determiner; the Oslo catalogue files it as Cannabis sativa var. indica (Lam.) Wehmer, determined by Nair.[3][2]
The label's note on medicinal properties reads Plant used as tonic, intoxicant, antiseptic, analgesic, narcotic, sedative and anodyne.[3]
- ↑ "Specimen O-V-2003823: Cannabis sativa var. indica (Lam.) Wehmer". MUSIT collection portal. Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Occurrence 1702039777: Cannabis sativa var. indica (Lam.) Wehmer". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Digitised sheet O-V-2003823: Cannabis sativa L." MUSIT image service. Natural History Museum, University of Oslo. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Occurrence search: recorded by Arnold Nordal, Myanmar". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ Paulsen, Berit Smestad. "Arnold Nordal". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in norsk). Retrieved 20 October 2026.