Talk:PRE 52594, Barberton (1934)
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Evidentiary scope
A municipal office sent the material in; the entry does not say who gathered it or in what circumstances. 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
The coordinate is coarser than a quarter-degree square: BODATSA records its accuracy as 5k. The point is carried on the ruling of 23 September 2026, but it locates the gathering within a region, not a site.
The same point, -25.78544, 31.04771, is carried by a second sheet from a different collector and a different decade, Lansdell 630. Two gatherings sharing a coordinate to five decimal places is the signature of a gazetteer look-up on the town's name, not of two field readings.
Editorial treatment
BODATSA writes a PRE accession number into the collector-number field of this entry. PRE 52594 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.
The collector is an office, not a named person, and the collector field carries the database's string unchanged. It is not wikilinked, because there is no person to link to.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 06:22, 24 September 2026 (+07)