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|date=2026-02-23
|title=Rumphius's Cannabis: A Seventeenth-Century Naturalist and the Oldest Plant Dispersal Nobody Followed Up On
|type=Report
|authors=Éloïse Dillon
|venue=Zomia Collective Patreon
|year=2026
|source=https://www.patreon.com/posts/rumphiuss-and-up-151448456
|summary=Analysis of Chapter XXXIV of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense (1747), the earliest known ethnobotanical account of cannabis in eastern Indonesia. Argues that Rumphius's description of Ginji Papoua — a morphologically distinct cannabis variety from the Papuan and Sula Islands documented in the 1690s — represents evidence of a pre-modern Austronesian cannabis dispersal route overlooked by the literature. Connects Madagascan pollen data, Austronesian maritime archaeology and Australian Bastard Cannabis morphology to propose a research agenda for eastern Indonesian landrace fieldwork.
|country=Indonesia
|record_created=2026-03-01
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[[Has research summary::Analysis of Chapter XXXIV of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense (1747), the earliest known ethnobotanical account of cannabis in eastern Indonesia. Argues that Rumphius's description of Ginji Papoua — a morphologically distinct cannabis variety from the Papuan and Sula Islands documented in the 1690s — represents evidence of a pre-modern Austronesian cannabis dispersal route overlooked by the literature. Connects Madagascan pollen data, Austronesian maritime archaeology and Australian Bastard Cannabis morphology to propose a research agenda for eastern Indonesian landrace fieldwork.]]
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