Talk:Laurent s.n., Butala (1903)

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Laurent s.n., Butala (1903) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The record fixes a cannabis plant at a named place on a known day, which makes it the most precisely dated of the early Congolese sheets. It gives no elevation, no habitat, no local name and no statement of use, its georeference is unconfirmed, and it does not establish whether the plant was cultivated or spontaneous. It records no continuing population and no living germplasm holding, so it supports neither a landrace nor a feral classification. No conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

The catalogue georeferences the locality at -4.13333, 20.91667, a point in Kasai. The name is not carried by OpenStreetMap, so the coordinate could not be confirmed against an independent gazetteer; it is reproduced as the holding institution's own georeference, stated to the arcminute, and not as a verified position.

These notes were moved from the accession article during the article-Talk cleanup of 16 September 2026. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 11:09, 16 September 2026 (+07)