Yeshoda 490 (1932)
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| Yeshoda 490 herbarium specimen, Hosur (1932) | |
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| Yeshoda 490 (1932) | |
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| Yeshoda 490 (1932), held by the New York Botanical Garden as catalogue 1414436 (CC BY 4.0) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Unknown |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Krishnagiri District |
| Locality | Hosur |
| Coordinates | 12.73, 77.83 |
| Point type | Settlement point |
| Uncertainty | about 6 km |
| Elevation | 914 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Herbarium specimen |
| Sourcing Type | Historical |
| Date | 1932 |
| Collector | Mrs. Kanoth Yeshoda |
| Specimen | |
| Repository | New York Botanical Garden |
| Catalogue Number | 1414436 |
| Collector Number | Yeshoda 490 |
| Scientific Name | Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist |
| Identified By | E. Small (1975) |
| Occurrence Record | View occurrence record |
| Provenance Evidence | |
| Identity Confirmation | A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives |
| Genebanks and Sequence Data | |
Sequence data
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Yeshoda 490 (1932) is an accession record for a pressed herbarium specimen of Cannabis sativa collected by Mrs. Kanoth Yeshoda at Hosur, then in Salem District, in 1932. Hosur is now in Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, India.[1] The New York Botanical Garden holds the sheet as catalogue 1414436.[2] GBIF publishes it as occurrence 1930857743.[3]
Collection and locality
Yeshoda's Plants of S. India label records Hosur in Salem District, an altitude of 3,000 feet, collection number 490 and the date 2.8.32.[4] The stated altitude converts to approximately 914 m. Current Tamil Nadu government records place Hosur in Krishnagiri District.[1]
Specimen and identification
The sheet mounts fruiting material and carries the name Cannabis sativa L.[4] In August 1975, Ernest Small determined it as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica (Lam.) E.Small & Cronquist, the name under which GBIF publishes the occurrence.[4][3]
Sequence data
Leaflets from this sheet were sampled for DNA by a herbarium-genomics project coordinated by Christopher J. Grassa of Harvard University, and the sample was sequenced by Marco Todesco at the University of British Columbia. The European Nucleotide Archive made it public as BioSample SAMEA112688676 on 24 February 2025; it gives the voucher as NY:1414436, this sheet, and the tissue as Leaflets removed from original specimen voucher.[5]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Hosur City Municipal Corporation". Government of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Yeshoda 490, Cannabis sativa, catalogue 1414436". Virtual Herbarium. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Occurrence 1930857743: Cannabis sativa subsp. indica". GBIF. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Digitised sheet 1414436: Yeshoda 490 (1932)". Virtual Herbarium image service. New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "BioSample SAMEA112688676: Cannabis from Herbarium NY, Grassa sample 3CJG1884". BioSample. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
