Talk:MacOwan PRE 5111 (1906)

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Page scope

MacOwan PRE 5111 (1906) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The sheet has a collector and a date but no locality and no country. MacOwan worked at the Cape from the 1860s and was government botanist there, so a Cape provenance is likely, but the catalogue does not say so and nothing is asserted here beyond South Africa. 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

BODATSA publishes no coordinate for this sheet. None is asserted.

Editorial treatment

BODATSA writes a PRE accession number into the collector-number field of this entry. PRE 5111 is the herbarium's own number for the sheet, not a number the collector gave the gathering, and the collector-number field carries it as the database has it. Nine Cannabis entries in BODATSA do the same.

This entry is one of two Cannabis rows in BODATSA whose country field is blank, so a query by country misses it. It was found by sweeping the records GBIF codes ZZ.

Source discrepancies

The locality field holds label boilerplate rather than a place. Reading INDIGENARUM as a locality would be an error; reading it as evidence of a Cape gathering would be an inference the catalogue does not support. The sheet needs to be seen.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 06:21, 24 September 2026 (+07)