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Page scope

Harrington s.n., Stellenbosch (1970) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

Data verification

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

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.

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

The coordinate is the centre of a quarter-degree square, not a field fix. BODATSA records the accuracy as 1/4dg and stores the square's code alongside it; a quarter-degree square is about 27 km across. Of the 61 georeferenced Cannabis rows in BODATSA, all 41 flagged 1/4dg fall exactly on a square's centre and none of the other 20 does. On Éloïse's ruling of 23 September 2026 the point is carried, at the precision the database gives it, with the accuracy stated here. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no coordinate in this batch has been verified by the herbarium.

The square is 3318DD.

Editorial treatment

The accession is filed at the Compton Herbarium rather than at Pretoria because the Compton entry is the fuller of the two: it carries a habitat, a plant description and a determiner, and Pretoria's carries none of them. Pretoria's collector-number field holds PRE 52601, a herbarium accession number rather than a collector's number; the Compton entry records the gathering correctly as s.n., and the accession follows it.

BODATSA publishes no per-specimen page, so the accession cites the database and the barcode identifies the sheet.

Source discrepancies

The two catalogues agree on the date, the collector and the coordinate, and differ in how much of the sheet they transcribe. Neither contradicts the other.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:17, 24 September 2026 (+07)