Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 1027 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Indian) hemp, marijuana.

Description:
Stems usually less than 3 m high, more or less branched, scabrid, emitting a characteristic odour; leaves divided nearly to the base into 5-9 hairy serrate narrowly lanceolate lobes.

Image source: fig. 61 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Image source: fig. 61 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 209.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: GT, EP, MU, SL. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: mainly Nov. — Feb., but also at most other times.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Uses: Cultivated in some parts of the world for the fibres and more widely for the drug. Its frequent occurrence in places where it is unlikely to have been deliberately sown or planted and despite legal restrictions on its cultivation in Australia, suggests that it is well adapted to perpetuate itself in parts of S.Aust. and, hence, its treatment here as semi-naturalised. It has been recorded outside cultivation in the MU and SL regions.

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