Talk:Mayr 116 (1890 to 1910)
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Evidentiary scope
The printed label reads NAME Cannabis sativa L. (insangu) Wild hemp. For thrush, sore eyes, tumours. Used for smoking. Its locality line is blank, and the date is given only as a span, 1890 to 1910. The sheet records what the plant was called and what it was used for. Wild hemp is a name for the plant, not a note that it grew wild. The label names no place, habitat or note on cultivation, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. The sheet is evidence about name and use, not about a population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
The locality line on the label is blank and the database gives no locality, no coordinate and no altitude. The country is all that is recorded. No point is asserted.
Editorial treatment
The date is a range and no single date is entered. The label reads 1890 - 1910. The collection-date field is left empty rather than filled with either endpoint or a midpoint, and the title carries the range. Entering 1890, or 1900, would be inventing a precision the label refuses.
The Bews Herbarium states of its images: Copyright (©): Permission granted to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited. That is not a free licence, so the file page rests on a fair-use rationale rather than on a licence template. A licence request to the herbarium would settle it.
The Bews Herbarium publishes 37,330 of its sheets online, against a collection its own site puts at about 150,000, so roughly two sheets in three are not catalogued anywhere public. Index Herbariorum names no database for it: the URL appears only in its website field. A search that stops at GBIF, or at Index Herbariorum's database fields, finds neither of its two Cannabis sheets.
The collector is given on the label as Father Fs. Mayr and in the database as Mayr, F. The article uses the label's form.
Source discrepancies
The printed card and the field tag spell the vernacular differently, or appear to: the card's first letter cannot be read with confidence. Both readings are given and neither is preferred.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:27, 24 September 2026 (+07)
Reading of the name
The field tag's ink word reads Insangu., not Umsangu. At full resolution its first letter is a looped copperplate capital I with no second stroke. The letter after it has a single arch: an n, not an m. The printed card's parenthesis begins with a dotted i. Both labels therefore give one form, Insangu. The two spellings recorded above rest on a misreading of the tag, as does the discrepancy noted under Source discrepancies. The article and the local_name field now give Insangu. No text read for this correction has the form umsangu. Éloise 20:44, 27 September 2026 (+07)