Talk:Schuhardt DS02383 (2002)

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Page scope

Schuhardt DS02383 (2002) 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 locality Port St Johns. Mzimvubu River., the date 16 April 2002 and the habitat Coastal dune. Tropical. Slope steep. It describes the plant as Tree, 8.00 m. Fairly rare. A tree eight metres tall does not fit cannabis, so the catalogue entry leaves the identification in doubt, and its habitat line cannot be taken as a record of where cannabis grew. No image of the label is published. Nothing shows whether a cannabis plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped here, so the accession is classified Unknown. 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 -31.62, 29.555556 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. BODATSA gives its accuracy, 100m, which marks a field reading; the quarter-degree square 3129DA is carried beside it in the database. The town of Port St Johns, which the label names (OpenStreetMap node 207672402), is 1.0 km from the point. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 100 m.

Editorial treatment

BODATSA publishes no per-specimen page: five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet and all answered 404. The accession cites the database itself, and the barcode identifies the sheet.

Source discrepancies

The plant description gives the habit as a tree eight metres high. Cannabis is an annual herb and does not reach that height or that habit, so either the growth-form and height fields hold another plant's measurement or the sheet is misdetermined. The description is quoted as the database gives it and is not corrected. The sheet should be seen before the accession is relied on.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 06:27, 24 September 2026 (+07)