Talk:Evans s.n., Durban docks (1917)
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Evidentiary scope
A single plant on waste ground beside a working port in 1917. Ruderal cannabis at a dock is as likely to have come off a ship as out of the hinterland, and the label says nothing either way. The catalogue gives a collector, a number, a date and a locality. It is a single gathering and shows neither a continuing population nor a living germplasm holding, so it supports neither a landrace nor a feral classification. The accession is classified Other. No conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
No catalogue gives a coordinate for this sheet, and the label gives none. None is asserted.
The locality is a quarter of a city and the accession is placed no more finely than Durban.
Editorial treatment
Edinburgh's catalogue records no collector, number, date or country for this sheet. It files it under the region Southern Africa and nothing more. Every value this accession carries was read from the digitised sheet in September 2026, and the reading is what the accession rests on.
The date is read as 2 October 1917 on the British convention the label's other content implies. The label writes 2.10.1917.
The gathering has no collector's number, so the title follows the wiki's Algeria precedent for a numberless sheet with a named collector and a place.
Source discrepancies
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh publishes two licences for this image. Its IIIF manifest states CC BY-SA 2.5 with attribution required; the Darwin Core record and GBIF's media block state CC0. The file page follows the manifest, which is the herbarium's own statement about the image rather than about the data, as the wiki's earlier Edinburgh file pages do.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:25, 24 September 2026 (+07)