Talk:Lewalle s.n., Rabat (1978)

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Lewalle s.n., Rabat (1978) 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 label records a plant escaped from a garden in Rabat in July 1978, named Chanvre and kif. That is evidence of cultivation nearby, in a garden, and of a plant growing outside it. The accession is classified Feral because the label states the plant had escaped from cultivation. It does not record who grew the garden plants, from what seed, or for what use. No conservation priority is assigned.

Label reading

Read from the Meise image (5755 × 8025 pixels).

• Printed form. Herbier J. Lewalle / MAROC / N° (number line struck through).
• Manuscript. Localité : Rabat / Date : 7. 78 / Altitude : 20 m / Habitat : échappé de jardin / Observations : Chanvre "kif" / Famille : Cannabaceae / Nom : Cannabis sativa L.
• DNA slip. Population dynamics in Cannabaceae / Leaf tissue removed for DNA / Christopher J. Grassa (ECON) - 2018/07/03 / HARVARD UNIVERSITY HERBARIA
• Meise labels. HERB. HORTI BOT. NAT. BELG. (twice, one with the barcode).
• Manuscript at the foot of the mount. Acc 1978.

No public sequence data for this sheet was found in the NCBI or ENA databases in October 2026. The Meise project under Grassa's umbrella holds twelve samples, all from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and São Tomé and Príncipe. Whether this sheet was sequenced is not known.

Georeferencing

The label names the city and an altitude of 20 metres. The coordinate is the city's point on Wikidata (item Q3551), 34.02, −6.84, which stands for the city and not for the garden. The 30-metre SRTM elevation at that point is 20 metres, the same as the label, but a single point cannot place the garden. Rabat lies in Rabat Prefecture, in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region.

Editorial treatment

The collector field takes J. Lewalle, the label form. The catalogue gives Lewalle J. and links the name to the VIAF authority 36803605, which identifies José Lewalle (1931–2004); the International Plant Names Index gives the same name and dates.

The local name field takes kif from the label's "kif". The label's Chanvre is a French common name and is not entered as a local name.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 22:13, 4 October 2026 (+07)