Talk:Lace 436 (1890)
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Evidentiary scope
Printed labels headed Flora of Bashahr, North-Western Himalayas give the habitat line as Barseri (a place name, not a description of the ground), the number 436 and the date 27 July 1890, and one adds an altitude of 9000 ft. The label on the third sheet gives Barseri – Baspa Valley and Bashahr State. None of the labels describes the habitat or records a cultivation status, local name or use, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, was growing wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. It does not establish a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
The labels name Barseri in the Baspa Valley of Bashahr State. The Baspa Valley lies in present-day Kinnaur District (District Kinnaur). Barseri was not matched with confidence to a present-day village. Batseri, a village of the Baspa Valley, is the closest name, but no source was found that spells it Barseri. The locality field therefore names the valley. The coordinate is Batseri's own point in OpenStreetMap (node 4681801869), 31.41, 78.30, used as a locality georeference rather than as a reconstructed collection point. It rests on the altitude rather than on the spelling. Batseri stands at about 2,738 m and the labels' 9,000 feet is 2,743 m, an agreement of five metres between two figures arrived at independently. That is evidence for reading Barseri as Batseri rather than proof of it, which is why the locality field above still names the valley: a structured field does not carry an inference that a coordinate may.
The altitude of 9,000 feet, written on E00248810 and E00248606, is stored as 2,743 m.
The coordinate georeferences the place the label names, at two decimal places, with the mapped object named above. The uncertainty allows about 2 km for the village and its fields, and 1 km for the rounding of the point. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 3 km. Éloise 06:11, 18 September 2026 (+07)
Editorial treatment
The three sheets are one gathering. They share field number 436, the date and the habitat. Each carries the same printed field tag. RBGE catalogues them separately; the accession lists all three.
The pencilled confirmation names Dr Stapf at Kew without initials. The name is not expanded. The literature reference on E00248606 is written H. Brit. Ind. V. p. 487 (the first letter may be an F); the article describes it without quoting the abbreviation.
The printed year on E00248606's date line is overwritten. All three labels read 27 July 1890. REC MAY 1891 and Purchased 1918 record the sheets' custody and are not used as dates. The collector field uses the label form J. H. Lace; the catalogue gives John Henry Lace.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 21:15, 17 September 2026 (+07)