Talk:Storey PRE 52606 (1923)

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Page scope

Storey PRE 52606 (1923) 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.

Data verification

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Evidentiary scope

The catalogue gives the locality DURBAN DIST., the date 9 November 1923 and the collector H. H. Storey. A duplicate of the gathering at the Herbarium of the University of Zurich (Z-000164609) carries a printed distribution card reading Durban, Natal., with the date 9-11-1923 and the collector's name; it also gives no habitat, use or note on cultivation. Nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped, 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

No point is given. The database gives the locality as DURBAN DIST., and the Zurich duplicate's card gives the district as Durban, Natal.: both name the magisterial district of 1923 and no place within it. no source read gives the district's bounds in 1923, and today's units around Durban are not shown to be the same area, so a district point with an honest radius cannot be given. An earlier version of this note gave no point only because the herbarium database carries no coordinate for the sheet.

Editorial treatment

BODATSA writes a PRE accession number into the collector-number field of this entry. PRE 52606 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 Zurich card settles the point: its collector's-number line is empty, so the gathering has no collector's number and PRE 52606 is Pretoria's accession number.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:28, 24 September 2026 (+07)