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Evidentiary scope
The accession rests on thirteen herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels give Pakistan as its origin. They show that seed said to be Pakistani was grown there; they do not show where in Pakistan 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-PAK-UNK-0019720001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence.
UMSstands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.PAKis the ISO code for Pakistan, the recorded seed origin.UNK: no province is recorded.- Month
00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown. - Year 1972 is the year of the earliest dated sheet of the lot. The seed had reached the university by then; the year is not a collection date.
Lineage
The labels call P A the first seed lot and give no generation, so the sourcing type is Unknown provenance. The P A1 labels read first seed lot. First generation, so P A1 takes this identifier with the suffix -R1 and P A as its parent. The labels do not say whether the 1972 plants of P A grew from seed as received or from seed of an earlier planting, and none says when or where in Pakistan the lot was gathered. No sheet in Harvard's index is coded P B.
The university's history names Pakistan among the origins of the seed sown in 1968. No label or source read so far ties that seed to P A.
Location and georeferencing
The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Pakistan, not the place where the plants grew. 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 Pakistani seed, and no place in Pakistan is recorded.
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 labels give no planting date.
Plant numbers
Each 1972 sheet of the lot carries a number of the form 56 B: a figure shared by every sheet of the lot (56), 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.
- 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.
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 05:15, 10 October 2026 (+07)