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Page scope

NPG-SYR-UNK-0019150001 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 40608 (Inventory No. 43 (1918), p. 54) and the entry for PI 40608 in GRIN-Global, the database of the National Plant Germplasm System, as it stood on 27 October 2026. The inventory names Damascus, the two consular officials the seed passed through, and Young's growing advice. 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-SYR-UNK-0019150001 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 40608.

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.
SYR is the ISO code for Syria.
UNK: no province is recorded.
Month 00: the date the seed was gathered is not known.
Year 1915 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

Neither source says where the plants that bore the seed grew or who grew them. Turkish hemp is the name the consular agent gave the seed and could equally describe its origin or its kind, so it places the seed nowhere. The accession is classified Unknown.

Collectors and donors

GRIN-Global lists Hollis, W.S., Office of U.S. Consul General - Damascus in its collector field. The printed inventory says Hollis presented the seed and that he had it from Young; neither is said to have gathered it, so the infobox gives no collector. GRIN-Global gives Hollis's office as Damascus; the inventory gives him as consul general at Beirut.

Location and georeferencing

The inventory names Damascus and nothing finer. The coordinate is OpenStreetMap's point for the city (node 1091272140), 33.51, 36.31, a locality georeference for the city the source names, not a collection point; it is used because the source names the city, while the seed may have been grown elsewhere. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 10 km, the radius of the city's built-up area. No province is entered: the sources give the city only.

Dates

The date the seed was gathered is not known, so the collection date is empty. Both sources give 16 April 1915 as the date of receipt, the lot's received date. The identifier therefore carries month 00 and the year of receipt, and the province segment UNK.