Talk:Du Toit PRE 23028 (1937)

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Page scope

Du Toit PRE 23028 (1937) 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 database gives the locality as MARICO DIST.; RHENOSTERFONTEIN FARM, the collector R. du Toit, the number PRE 23028 and the date November 1937, on two sheets. The farm is named as a place; the entry does not say what was grown on it. It records no habitat, use or note on cultivation, and the label has not been read, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown until the label can be read. No conservation priority is assigned.

The Botanical Database of Southern Africa publishes no image of this sheet. Its image count is zero, and so is the image count of all 1,361,966 rows in the database: the store is empty, and SANBI's own site still lists plant images among its plans. The accession carries no image until the herbarium supplies a scan.

Georeferencing

No point is given. The database gives the locality as MARICO DIST.; RHENOSTERFONTEIN FARM. The name resolves to more than one place: GeoNames lists 36 places called Rhenosterfontein in South Africa, eight of them in North West, among them a farm in Ramotshere Moiloa, the municipality of Zeerust (listed under its other name, Doornkraal), and the Marico Bosveld Dam, whose older name is Rhenosterfontein Dam. Which of them lay in Marico District in 1937 is not shown: no source read gives the district's bounds in 1937, and today's units around Zeerust are not shown to be the same area, so a district point with an honest radius cannot be given. An earlier version of this note gave no point only because the herbarium database carries no coordinate for the sheet.

Editorial treatment

BODATSA writes a PRE accession number into the collector-number field of this entry. PRE 23028 is the herbarium's own number for the sheet, not a number the collector gave the gathering, and the collector-number field carries it as the database has it. Nine Cannabis entries in BODATSA do the same.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 06:23, 24 September 2026 (+07)