Talk:Wight s.n. (1821)

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Wight s.n. (1821) 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 carries the printed labels Herb. Wight. propr. and Peninsula Ind. Orientalis. (Peninsular India), and a handwritten annotation dates the material to October 1821. A separate label gives the local name Gunjah. The labels give a broad region, a date, a local name and a taxonomic annotation, but no precise locality, altitude or habitat, and no note on cultivation, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. The sheet shows no continuing population and no living germplasm holding, and no conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

No point is given. Peninsula Ind. Orientalis names the southern peninsula of India as a whole, a region across several of today's states, and the labels name no place within it, so nothing below the country is named. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the label identifies Peninsular India rather than a collection point.

Editorial treatment

The handwritten year reads 1821. GBIF transcribes it as October 1811. The accession follows the directly inspected label, which reads 1821. The label form Gunjah is preserved in the local-name field and linked in prose to the established Ganja article. The historical taxonomic annotation is transcribed without adopting it as the current identification.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 20:04, 16 September 2026 (+07)