Talk:PRE 52594, Barberton (1934)

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Page scope

PRE 52594, Barberton (1934) is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

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Evidentiary scope

The catalogue records the year 1934, with the month and day blank, the locality Barberton and a collector given as Municipal Off., which names an office and not a person. The entry does not say who gathered the plant or in what circumstances. No image of the label is published, so the label cannot be read, and the catalogue says nothing about how or where the plant grew. The accession is classified Unknown until the label can be read. 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 point -25.78544, 31.04771 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. The same point, -25.78544, 31.04771, is carried by Lansdell 630, a different collector in a different decade. Two gatherings agreeing to five decimal places is the signature of a gazetteer look-up on the town's name, so the point stands for Barberton and not for a site in it. It lies 0.4 km from the town's point in OpenStreetMap (node 262719132). BODATSA gives its accuracy, 5k; the 2011 census gives Barberton 37.74 km² (English Wikipedia, Barberton, South Africa), a circle about 3.5 km in radius, so the stated five kilometres takes in the town. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 5 km.

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.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 06:22, 24 September 2026 (+07)