Talk:Adamson 2872 (1940)

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Page scope

Adamson 2872 (1940) is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

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Evidentiary scope

The catalogue gives the habitat as Disturbed soil. and the description as Male flowers. The printed label gives the locality as Rondebosch, Keurboom Park, and the date as 7 April 1940, and its habitat line reads Habitat Disturbed soil. Neither the label nor the catalogue records cultivation. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the label and the catalogue. The label does not say whether the plants descended from a crop. A single gathering does not establish a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

The label names Rondebosch - Keurboom Park. The point -33.97, 18.48 is the middle of Keurboom Park, a public park in Rondebosch, OpenStreetMap way 22757273, about 0.07 km² in area; its farthest edge is 0.2 km from the middle. It places the gathering in the park, not at a spot within it. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the portal publishes no coordinate for the sheet. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 1 km.

Editorial treatment

The Bolus Herbarium is invisible to every route that normally finds a sheet. It publishes 1,270 records to GBIF, almost all of them scraps from other people's datasets, against a collection Index Herbariorum puts at 373,000. Index Herbariorum names no database for it, and the University of Cape Town's own page still says the data are not accessible through internet. The portal at bolus-herbarium.africa was found by following a footer link, and it holds 263,769 records with 22 per cent of them imaged. This sheet is in none of GBIF, BODATSA or Index Herbariorum.

The label writes the year as 940 for 1940 and the date as Ap. 7, which the portal reads as 7 April. The two agree.

Cannabaceae is not on the herbarium's list of fully databased families and roughly a third of the collection is not online, so a second Cape sheet in the cupboards is possible.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:27, 24 September 2026 (+07)