Sitovskiy s.n. (1871)

Herbarium specimen attributed to Sitovskiy, ravines behind a garden, Georgia (1871)
Sitovskiy s.n. (1871)
Sitovskiy s.n., held by the Moscow University Herbarium as MW0661550 (CC BY 4.0)
At a Glance
Classification	Other
Location
Country	Georgia (country)
Locality	Ravines behind a garden
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	22 August 1871
Collector	Sitovskiy
Specimen
Repository	Moscow University Herbarium
Catalogue Number	MW0661550
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

Sitovskiy s.n. is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa gathered in ravines behind a garden on 22 August 1871. The label names no collector, town or country: the Moscow University Herbarium, which holds the sheet as MW0661550, files it under Georgia and attributes it to Sitovskiy.

Collection and locality

The label is a small slip written in ink in the spelling of before 1918: Cannabis sativa., the date 22/VIII 71. and Овраги, за садомъ (ravines, behind the garden), followed by the garden's name, which is not clearly legible. The catalogue gives the date as 22 August 1871, transcribes the place as Овраги, за садом Муштаида (ravines, behind the Mushtaid garden), files the sheet under Georgia and names the collector in square brackets as [Sitovskiy], an attribution of the herbarium's that the label does not carry.

Specimen and identification

The sheet carries two slender flowering stems, and an empty paper capsule at the top left. The label names the plant Cannabis sativa without an author or a determiner; the catalogue files it as Cannabis sativa L. and gives the collector as the determiner.