Wiart 582 (1981)
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| Wiart 582 herbarium specimen, Salme (1981) | |
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| Wiart 582 (1981) | |
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| Wiart 582, held by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as E00751459 (CC BY-SA 2.5) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Other |
| Location | |
| Country | Nepal |
| Province/State | Bagmati Province |
| District | Nuwakot District |
| Locality | Salme (lieu-dit Djong) |
| Elevation | 2200 m |
| Traditional Names | |
| Local Name | Sima(-dombo) (Tamang) |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1981-05-23 |
| Collector | J. Wiart |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
| Catalogue Number | E00751459 |
| Collector Number | Wiart, J. 582 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa L. |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
Wiart 582 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected at Djong in the village of Salme, Nuwakot District, central Nepal, at 2,200 metres on 23 May 1981 by Jacques Wiart. Its label records the plant as kept in the winter cereal fields and gives its Tamang name, Sima or Sima-dombo. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds the sheet as E00751459.[1][2]
Collection and locality
The label is a printed Flore du Nepal form headed village de SALME (28°03'N/85°08'E). District de Nuwakot. and Programme "VERSANT" du GRECO Himalaya-Karakorum, with the entries written by hand. It gives the scientific name Cannabis sativa L., the family Cannabiacées, the Tamang name Sima(-dombo), the date 23/5/1981, the place-within-the-village (lieu-dit) Djong and the altitude 2200 m; the collector is Jacques Wiart, specimen number 582.[3] The catalogue gives the collector, number and date, and no locality.[1]
Cultivation and name
The label's station, the place the plant grew, reads Entretenue dans les champs de céréales d'hiver: kept, or tended, in the winter cereal fields.[3] Neither this note nor the Tamang name is in the catalogue. Yon s.n., Salme (1974), collected in the same village in May 1974, records cannabis cultivated on terraces and gives its Nepali name, Ganja.
Specimen and identification
The label and the catalogue determine the sheet as Cannabis sativa L.[1] Edinburgh publishes the sheet image under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.[3]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Herbarium specimen E00751459: Cannabis". RBGE Herbarium Catalogue. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ "Occurrence 1229654405: Cannabis sativa L." GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Digitised sheet E00751459, IIIF manifest". RBGE IIIF image service. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 October 2026.