Talk:Martin 1865 (1973)
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Evidentiary scope
The label records the plant as cultivated and, where it says so, its uses. 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.
Three numbers of the series come from this village in the same month, and between them they record both sexes.
Georeferencing
As for Martin 1864: Ban Xay Fong was not resolved in OpenStreetMap, and the label puts it no closer than near Vientiane. No coordinate is asserted.
Editorial treatment
The collector field holds the label's own form. The 1860 label reads Collect.: MARTIN Marie A. and the 1864 label Collect.: Marie Martin. The ethnobotanist Marie Alexandrine Martin worked in Laos and Cambodia in these years, but no source read for this page identifies her as this collector, and none is asserted here. Check it before a person page is linked.
The label dates the gathering to the month, 5/73, and the catalogue to May 1973. The collection date field holds the month, not a day.
The locality field holds the village name in the spelling of the 1864 label, Ban Xay Fong, not the catalogue's Bon Xay Fong, so that the three sheets of the village sort together. The catalogue's spelling is recorded below.
Source discrepancies
- The catalogue writes the village Bon Xay Fong for this sheet. No image of this sheet is published, so its own label cannot be read; the spelling follows the label of Martin 1864, which does carry an image.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 17:26, 23 September 2026 (+07)