Talk:Moll 5521 (1971)
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Evidentiary scope
Durban's entry gives the date as 18 October 1971, the locality as Gwaleweni Forest. and the altitude as 609 m, and records no habitat or note on cultivation. A duplicate of the same gathering at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (WAG.1455356) gives the collectors as Moll & Nel, the number as 5521 and the date as 18/10/71, with the note Gwaleweni Forest. Forest. Cultivated herb in small forest clearing. That records a cultivated herb in a clearing in forest. It does not say who grew the plant, and nothing on either sheet ties it to local growers, such as a people, a village or a household. The gathering is from 1971, so its date excludes nothing. The accession is classified Unknown, and no conservation priority is assigned. The collector made Moll 5530 at the same forest and altitude the next day.
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 point -27.375, 32.125 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. It is the centre of the quarter-degree square 2732AC, about 27 km across, and not the place the plant was gathered: BODATSA gives its accuracy, 1/4dg, and stores the square's code beside it. Of the 61 georeferenced Cannabis rows in BODATSA, all 41 flagged 1/4dg fall exactly on a square's centre and none of the other 20 does. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no Cannabis coordinate in BODATSA has been verified by the herbarium. Gwaleweni Forest, the place the label names, was not found in OpenStreetMap, so the square could not be checked against it. The point is carried at the precision the database gives it. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 19 km.
Editorial treatment
The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium publishes no per-specimen page. Five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet and all answered 404, so the accession cites the database itself and the barcode identifies the sheet.
Source discrepancies
The label gives the altitude as about 2,000 ft, which is about 610 m; BODATSA stores 609 m, so the catalogue's figure is the label's, converted.
The collector field carries Moll alone, because that field auto-links and the catalogues give no initials. The article names both collectors.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:24, 24 September 2026 (+07)