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Page scope

UMS-VNM-UNK-0019700001 is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The accession rests on 2 herbarium sheets of plants grown in Mississippi from seed whose labels give Vietnam as its origin. They show that seed said to be Vietnamese was grown there; they do not show where in Vietnam 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-VNM-UNK-0019700001 follows the wiki's seed-accession grammar: holder, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, province segment, month, year, sequence.

UMS stands for the University of Mississippi, which grew the lot.
VNM is the ISO code for Vietnam, the recorded seed origin.
UNK: no province is recorded.
Month 00: the date the seed was gathered is unknown.
Year 1970 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 give no generation. The lot may be the first Vietnamese seed lot whose first generation was grown in 1972 as V A1 (UMS-VNM-UNK-0019720001), but no label or source read so far says so, so no relationship is set beyond related accession. The sourcing type is Unknown provenance.

Location and georeferencing

The country field gives the recorded seed origin, Vietnam, 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 Vietnamese seed, and no place in Vietnam is recorded.

Dates

The collection date is left empty because the date the seed was gathered is unknown. 19 October 1970, the date on both sheets, is entered as the sample harvest date.

Label reading

The sheets have not been seen. The label text above is Harvard's transcription in its specimen index (read on 8 October 2026), where the lot code is in the remarks field. Harvard has published no image of any sheet of the lot.

Neither sheet carries a collector number.
Both sheets give the vernacular names hemp, Indian hemp, fimble, gallow grass, grass marihuana, marihuana, hanf, chanvre, and others, a general list that says nothing of Vietnamese usage, so it is not entered as a local name.
Harvard's botanist index lists the collector as Quimby, Mayhard Ward (born 1905), also known as M. W. Quimby. His 1973 paper in Economic Botany gives his first name as Maynard.

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 02:36, 9 October 2026 (+07)