Watt 9644 (1888)
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| Watt 9644 herbarium specimen, Bathad–Manglaur road (1888) | |
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| Watt 9644 (1888) | |
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| Watt 9644, held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as catalogue E00248828 (CC BY-SA 2.5) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Western Himalayas |
| Growing Area | Tirthan Valley |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| District | Kullu District |
| Coordinates | 31.60, 77.48 |
| Elevation | 1981 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1 October 1888 |
| Collector | G. Watt |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E00248828 |
| Collector Number | Watt, G. 9644 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
| Provenance Evidence | |
| Regional Corroboration | Gazetteer of the Kangra District, Parts II to IV: Kulu, Lahul and Spiti (1897) |
| Population Corroboration | None recorded |
| Identity Confirmation | None recorded |
Watt 9644 is an accession record for a pressed herbarium specimen of Cannabis sativa collected on the descent from Bathad to Manglaur, in what is now Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India, on 1 October 1888 by George Watt. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds the sheet as catalogue E00248828.[1] GBIF publishes it as preserved specimen occurrence 574978041.[2] Neither catalogue record supplies a locality, elevation or field observation; those details survive on Watt's label.[3]
Collection route
Watt dated the gathering Oct. 1st 1888, recorded an altitude of 6,500 feet and gave the locality as On the descent to Manglaur from Bathad.[3] The altitude converts to 1,981 m. A contemporary gazetteer describes the Manglaur–Bathad road as a 17-mile stage along the Tirthan valley, with Bathad in a tributary valley.[4]
Cultivation observation
Watt added a field observation beneath the locality:
[3]“A custom in this & in many other localities only the female plants are allowed to grow. Apparently the males are after fecundation of the female removed from the fields or broken down & left in the fields to rot.”
Specimen and identification
The label identifies the mounted plant as female and annotates it Cannabis ♀ sativa.[3] The fruiting specimen and the catalogue determination both support Cannabis sativa L.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cannabis sativa L., specimen E00248828". Herbarium catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 574978041: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Digitised sheet E00248828: Cannabis sativa L." RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ Diack, A.H. (1899). Gazetteer of the Kangra District, Parts II to IV: Kulu, Lahul and Spiti, 1897. Lahore: Punjab Government – via Internet Archive.