Schultes 26503 (1971)
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| Schultes 26503 herbarium specimen, near Kandahar (1971) | |
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| Schultes 26503 (1971) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Kandahar Province |
| Locality | near Kandahar |
| Coordinates | 31.62, 65.72 |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | December 1971 |
| Collector | R.E. Schultes |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Harvard University Herbaria |
| Catalogue Number | ECON 00429205 |
| Collector Number | Schultes, R.E. 26503 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | E. Small (1976) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Schultes 26503 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected near Kandahar, Afghanistan, between 13 and 20 December 1971 by Richard Evans Schultes. A sheet is held in the Economic Botany Herbarium of the Harvard University Herbaria, and Ernest Small and Arthur Cronquist cited the number, with duplicates at Ottawa (DAO) and Harvard (ECON), in their 1976 classification of Cannabis.[1][2]: 428
Collection and locality
Harvard's index gives the locality as Near Kandahar and the date as 13–20 December 1971.[1] Another of Schultes's numbers from near Kandahar that month, 26505, was designated in 2020 the epitype of Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica (Schultes 26505 (1971)).[3]
Specimen and identification
On 16 March 1976 Small determined the sheet as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica. Harvard files it under Cannabis L. and gives its Economic Botany Herbarium accession number as ECON 21506.[1] Small and Cronquist cite 26503 among the Afghan collections of C. sativa subsp. indica var. indica.[2]: 428
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, barcode 00429205". Index of Botanical Specimens. Harvard University Herbaria. Retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Small, Ernest; Cronquist, Arthur (August 1976). "A practical and natural taxonomy for Cannabis". Taxon. 25 (4): 405–435. doi:10.2307/1220524.
- ↑ McPartland, J.M.; Small, E. (2020). "A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives". PhytoKeys. 144: 81–112. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700.