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Evidentiary scope
The accession rests on three herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels call it Korean. They show that seed said to be Korean was grown there; they do not show where in Korea the seed was gathered, who supplied it or how it reached the university. No surviving seed of the lot has been traced. The page therefore carries no locality, coordinates, classification or conservation priority.
Identifier
The identifier UMS-KOR-UNK-0019720001-R1 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence, reproduction suffix.
UMSstands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.KORis the ISO code for the Republic of Korea. The labels say only Korean and name no state; the grammar needs a country code, and the segment makes no claim about which state the seed came from.UNK: no province is recorded.- Month
00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown. - Year 1972 and the sequence are those of K A (UMS-KOR-UNK-0019720001): a reproduction takes its parent line's identifier.
-R1: the generation the labels state.
Lineage
The labels call K A1 a first generation. The original sample is K A, so the accession takes K A's identifier with the suffix -R1 and K A as its parent. The labels do not name the parent plants or say in which year the K A1 seed was harvested. The sourcing type follows the labels' first generation. Two sheets coded K A, 00449599 and 00449596, also read first generation; they stay on K A (see that page's Talk).
Location and georeferencing
The country field gives the recorded seed origin, not the place where the plants grew. The labels say Korean and name no state, so the field reads Korea, not South Korea or North Korea. The grow-out at University, Mississippi, is stated in the article. No coordinate is given and the map is off: a point in Mississippi would misplace Korean seed, and no place in Korea is recorded.
Harvard's index files these sheets under the state of Louisiana (Lafayette County, Lafayette), although the locality reads University, Lafayette Co. Mississippi. The article follows the label.
Dates
The collection date is left empty because the date the seed was gathered is unknown. The sheets are dated 31 July to 1 August 1972, a range across two months, so the sample harvest date is stored as the year. The planting date, 21 March 1972, comes from the labels.
Plant numbers
Each 1972 sheet of the lot carries a number of the form 83 A: a figure shared by every sheet of the lot (83), then a letter for the plant. The figure may be a plot or row number, but no label says so, and the article does not call it one.
Label reading
The sheets have not been seen. The label text above is Harvard's transcription in its specimen index (read on 9 October 2026), where the lot code is in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.
- Harvard transcribes the code as K A 1; the page writes K A1.
- The collector field lists the three collectors as Harvard credits them. T. E. Lockwood is Tommie Earl Lockwood (1941–1975) in Harvard's botanist index.
- Small determined the K A2 sheets as Cannabis sativa var. kafiristanica and the K A and K A1 sheets, on the same day, as subsp. indica. The page reports the determinations as Harvard records them and draws nothing from the difference.
Sources not yet read
M. W. Quimby, N. J. Doorenbos, C. E. Turner and A. Masoud described the cultivation and the morphological variation of Mississippi-grown cannabis in Economic Botany 27 (1973): 117–127 (doi:10.1007/BF02862224). The paper may identify the seed sources and explain the lot codes. It has not been read for this page, and nothing here depends on it.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 05:14, 10 October 2026 (+07)