Taxon: Cannabis sativa L. subsp. indica (Lam.) E. Small & Cronquist

See other conspecific taxa:

• Cannabis sativa (no accessions)
• Cannabis sativa subsp. sativa (no accessions)

Common names:

• hemp   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• Indian hemp   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• marihuana   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• chanvre d'Inde   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• chanvre indien   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Haschisch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• indischer Hanf   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• bhang   (Source: Websters Dict ) – India
  
• ganja   (Source: Websters Dict ) – India
  
• maconha   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• grifa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• hachís   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mariguana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• marijuana   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – Spanish (Mexico)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore; source of Δ-tetrahydrocannabinol   (fide Import Medicinal Pl, as C. sativa; Herbs Commerce ed2; CRC MedHerbs ed2, as C. sativa)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Social: psychoactive; stimulant   (fide Pl Book)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Cannabis sativa subsp. indica from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• widely naturalized

• widely cultivated

References:

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cannabis indica Lam. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Cannabis sativa L. subsp. indica (Lam.) E. Small & Cronquist:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Check other databases for images:

• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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