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Evidentiary scope
The database gives the date as 11 March 2020, the collector as F. M. Maseko and the locality as Kwamhlanga, Phola Park Village. Nkangala., with no coordinate. It records no habitat, use or note on cultivation, and no image of the label is published, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown, and 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
The database names Kwamhlanga, Phola Park Village. The point -25.40, 28.73 is Phola Park in KwaMhlanga, OpenStreetMap node 9315238692 (place suburb). Phola Park has no mapped outline; the 2011 census gives the main place of KwaMhlanga 6.92 km² (English Wikipedia, KwaMhlanga), a circle about 1.5 km in radius, and 1 km is added for the rounding of the point. It places the gathering in the village, not at a spot within it. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the database publishes no coordinate for the sheet. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 3 km.
Editorial treatment
This entry is in SANBI's own front end but not in the BODATSA feed that reaches GBIF, which is why a GBIF sweep misses it. It is one of thirteen such Cannabis entries, and one of the three that are not at the Compton Herbarium. Its absence from GBIF is publication lag rather than a difference of substance.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:00, 24 September 2026 (+07)