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Cooper 1486 (1914) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The label records a dwarf cannabis plant on sand beside a stream at Chalimarphé, 7,000 feet, in July 1914. Dwarf var. is Cooper's description of the plant's stature; it names no variety and is not a determination. It names no use, variety or local name, and does not say whether the plant was growing wild, escaped or cultivated. A single sheet does not establish a landrace or a continuing population. No conservation priority is assigned. The accession is classified Other.

Label reading

Read from the Edinburgh image (E00150672, 2743 × 4096 pixels).

• Printed label FLORA OF BHUTAN., with printed field names (Locality, Date, Altitude, Remarks, No.) filled in by hand, and the printed foot R. E. Cooper, Collector for A. K. Bulley, Esq., Cheshire.
• Pencil 153 above the label: a filing figure, not a field datum.
• A packet at the upper right, closed.
• Handwritten entries. Locality Chalimarphé Timpu (the accent as written); Date 11/7/14; Altitude 7000'; Remarks No. 1486, Dwarf var. on sand by stream, Cannabis sativa L.

Georeferencing

No coordinate is asserted. No place named Chalimarphé, or spelled Chalimaphe, Tsalimape, Tsalimaphe, Tsalumaphe or Tshalumaphey, was found in Wikidata, OpenStreetMap or GeoNames. Ludlow 19635 (1949) was collected at Tsalimape, also at 7,000 feet; the two names may be spellings of one place, but no source read for these pages says so.

Editorial treatment

The collector field takes R.E. Cooper, the label's form, and the article uses the initials only. The catalogue gives the full name as Roland Edgar Cooper; the International Plant Names Index (author 1790-1) and the Harvard Index of Botanists give Rowland Edgar Cooper, 1890–1962. The province field takes the present-day dzongkhag in its English form, Thimphu District, because the label names Timpu. Timpu is read as the label's spelling of Thimphu; Cooper writes it after the place-name on four of his five sheets, as a district. The locality field keeps the label's spelling.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 04:16, 5 October 2026 (+07)