Talk:Stebbins s.n., Somerset East (1908)

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Stebbins s.n., Somerset East (1908) 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 sheet holds a bare stem fragment and a modern printed card giving the locality SOUTH AFRICA: Somerset East and the collector Inez Stebbins, February 1908. The original label is not on the sheet, and the card transcribes it. It gives no habitat, use or note on cultivation, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. No conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

The card names Somerset East and nothing within it. The point -32.72, 25.59 is the town, OpenStreetMap node 262716138, mapped under its new name, KwaNojoli. The 2011 census gives the town 72.8 km² (English Wikipedia, Somerset East), a circle about 4.8 km in radius, and 1 km is added for the rounding of the point. It places the gathering at the town, not at a spot within it. An earlier version of this note gave no point and no reason. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 6 km.

Editorial treatment

The date is the catalogue's verbatim February 1908, month and year, and no day is supplied.

The catalogue's locality note that Somerset East was renamed KwaNojoli in 2023 is the catalogue's own and is not repeated in the locality field, which carries the name the label uses.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:26, 24 September 2026 (+07)