Yu 10078 (1937)

Yu 10078 herbarium specimens, Atuntze, Yunnan (1937)
Yu 10078 (1937)
At a Glance
Classification	Feral
Location
Country	China
Province/State	Yunnan
Locality	Atuntze, [Y?]ungpu, Sanoka
Coordinates	28.48, 98.92
Elevation	3200 m
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Historical
Date	1 September 1937
Collector	T. T. Yü
Specimen
Repository	Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Catalogue Number	PE 00578077
Collector Number	Yu 10078
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	關克儉
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record

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Yu 10078 is a herbarium accession of Cannabis sativa collected on a grassy slope near Atuntze (now Shengping, the seat of Deqin County), in Yunnan, China, at 3,200 m on 1 September 1937 by T. T. Yu. The Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing holds two sheets, PE 00578077 and PE 00578083, and the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences a third as KUN 0169107.

Collection and locality

Each sheet carries a typed field slip: T.T.Yü 10078 Sept. 1, 1937, the place Y. Atuntze followed by two names that are faint or cut at the edge, read as [Y?]ungpu and Sanoka, the altitude alt. 3200 m., the habitat grassy slope, herb with its height, the flowers whitish green, the word casual and Morac. Cannabis. A round printed tag reads F. I. B. Yunnan Exp., Coll. T. T. Yü and the number in red. The catalogue gives the collector as 俞德俊, the number, the year and Yunnan. The Kunming sheet carries the same round tag, numbered 10078 in red, and a later form of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, headed 雲南植物 (Yunnan plants), filled in by hand: the date 9.1.1937 (month first), a place in faint cursive characters, the altitude 3200m, a grassy slope, a herb 1-3 ft high, whitish-green flowers, the note casual and the collector 俞德浚 (Yü Te-tsun).

Specimen and identification

PE 00578077 carries one rooted stem with a terminal raceme of male flowers, and PE 00578083 two rooted, leafy stems with flower clusters. A later slip on each names the plant Cannabis sativa L., signed 關克儉 on 27 January 1956. The Kunming sheet carries two long rooted stems and a branched stem with open male flowers, and a slip of 1959 naming the plant Cannabis sativa L. Yü had gathered cannabis at Sichang five years earlier: Yu 1220 (1932). The Chinese Virtual Herbarium publishes its sheet images under a non-commercial, no-derivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0); they are read and cited here, not reproduced.