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Page scope

NPG-CHN-XIN-0019050001 is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

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Evidentiary scope

The accession rests on two sources: the department's printed inventory entry for plant introduction 16333 (Inventory No. 11 (1907), pp. 226, 228) and the entry for PI 16333 in GRIN-Global, the database of the National Plant Germplasm System, as it stood on 27 October 2026. The inventory gives the sender, the route, a local name and the use, and no place for this lot finer than the consignment's. GRIN-Global states that the lot "no longer exists and can not be requested", so the page gives the lot as gone. No conservation priority is assigned.

Identifier

The identifier NPG-CHN-XIN-0019050001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence. The department's own number for the lot is PI 16333.

NPG stands for the National Plant Germplasm System of the United States Department of Agriculture, whose database, GRIN-Global, carries the department's plant introductions.
CHN is the ISO code for China.
XIN stands for Xinjiang.
Month 00: the date the seed was gathered is not known.
Year 1905 is the year the department received the lot.
0001 is the lot's place, in plant-introduction order, among the holder's lots from the same country, province, month and year.

Classification

The entry gives a local name and a use but does not say where the plants were grown or by whom, and the consignment's heading leaves open whether it came from Kashgar or Khotan. The accession is classified Unknown.

Collectors and donors

GRIN-Global lists Ellsworth Huntington as its source; the printed inventory says the seeds were received from him. Neither source says he gathered this lot, so the infobox gives no collector.

Name

The inventory gives the name Bang and no gloss; it is entered as the local name as printed.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory heads the consignment "From Kashgar", but sent it through the amban of Khotan and quotes Huntington on the Khotan oasis, so it does not settle which of the two oases this seed came from. The page has no point and the map is off. Both oases lie in Xinjiang, the province GRIN-Global gives.

Dates

The date the seed was gathered is not known, so the collection date is empty. Both sources give 17 November 1905 as the date of receipt, the lot's received date. The identifier therefore carries month 00 and the year of receipt.