Sato 8107 (1936)

Sato 8107 herbarium specimen, Lüshun, Kwantung (1936)
Sato 8107 (1936)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	China
Province/State	Liaoning
Locality	関東州 旅順 (Lüshun, Kwantung)
Coordinates	38.85, 121.26
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	9 July 1936
Collector	J. Sato
Specimen
Repository	Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Catalogue Number	PE 00557875
Collector Number	Sato 8107
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Sato 8107 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Lüshun (旅順, Port Arthur), in the Kwantung Leased Territory (関東州), now part of Dalian, Liaoning, China, on 9 July 1936 by J. Sato. The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing holds the sheet as PE 00557875.

Collection and locality

The label is the printed slip of a private herbarium, Herbarium Junpei Sato., completed by hand. It gives the number 8107, the name Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, the Japanese name アサ (asa, hemp) with 雄株 (male plant), the locality 関東州 旅順 (Kwantung, Lüshun), the date July. 9. 1936 and the collector J. Sato. The catalogue gives the collector, the number, the year and Liaoning.

Specimen and identification

The sheet carries a tall male plant with palmate leaves of five to seven narrow, serrate leaflets and sparse flowers. The label names it Cannabis sativa Linnaeus. The collector's slip numbered 8108, for a female plant (雌株) from the same place on the same day, is on a sheet in Shenyang: Sato 8108 (1936). Five years later the same collector gathered a cultivated plant in Liaoyang County: Sato 8593 (1941). The Chinese Virtual Herbarium publishes its sheet images under a non-commercial, no-derivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0); they are read and cited here, not reproduced.