Schultes 26505 (1971)
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| Schultes 26505 herbarium specimen, near Kandahar (1971), epitype of var. afghanica | |
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| Schultes 26505 (1971) | |
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| Schultes 26505, the epitype of var. afghanica, as photographed for McPartland and Small (2020), Fig. 5b (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Feral |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Kandahar Province |
| Locality | near Kandahar |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | December 1971 |
| Collector | R.E. Schultes |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Harvard University Herbaria |
| Catalogue Number | ECON 26505 |
| Collector Number | Schultes, R.E. 26505 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica (Vavilov) McPartl. & E.Small |
| Identified By | J.M. McPartland & E. Small (2020) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Schultes 26505 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected near Kandahar, Afghanistan, between 13 and 20 December 1971 by Richard Evans Schultes, from a plant growing as an escape in a formerly irrigated field. It is held in the Economic Botany Herbarium of the Harvard University Herbaria, and in 2020 John McPartland and Ernest Small designated it the epitype of Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica.[1][2]
Collection and locality
Schultes collected the specimen near Kandahar, in Kandahar Province, between 13 and 20 December 1971; it is held as ECON 26505.[1] The plant was an escape, growing spontaneously in a formerly irrigated field.[2] In Tropicos, as GBIF publishes it, the collector is Richard E. Schultes, the locality near Kandahar, the date 13 December 1971 and the collector number s.n..[3]
Field observations
Schultes photographed the plant before he collected it. The photograph, published in 1974 by Schultes, William M. Klein, Timothy Plowman and Tom E. Lockwood as Plate XXXV of their paper on cannabis taxonomy, shows a pistillate and a staminate plant in fields near Kandahar, the pistillate plant being the source of specimen R.E. Schultes 26505 (Econ. Herb. Oakes Ames).[4] McPartland and Small call the photograph a typotype of the epitype and reproduce it in their supplementary material.[1][2]
Typification
McPartland and Small designated the sheet an epitype explicitly supporting the neotype of var. afghanica, Vavilov's 1924 Gui-Akhen material. The rules of botanical nomenclature allow an epitype where the type is too poor for critical identification, and they chose ECON 26505 because, in their words, its morphology unambiguously agrees with the widespread concept of “Indica”.[1]
Specimen and identification
The paper's photograph of the sheet shows three dense, leafy branches bearing seed, strapped to the mount.[1] Tropicos files the specimen under Cannabis sativa f. afghanica Vavilov with the type status epitype.[3]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 McPartland, J.M.; Small, E. (2020). "A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives". PhytoKeys. 144. Supplementary file 1, p. 31. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Occurrence 3115496397: Cannabis sativa f. afghanica Vavilov". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 6 October 2026.
- ↑ Schultes, R.E.; Klein, W.M.; Plowman, T.; Lockwood, T.E. (1974). "Cannabis: an example of taxonomic neglect". Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University. 23 (9): 337–367. doi:10.5962/p.168565.