Talk:Anon. s.n., Wynberg Hill (1959)
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Evidentiary scope
The database gives the date as 27 January 1959 and the locality as Cape Peninsula. Found in a garden on Wynberg Hill. It names no collector. Three sheets of the gathering are held. The words say where the plant was found. They do not say whether it was grown in the garden or came up there by itself, and they record no use or other note on cultivation. The accession is classified Unknown. It shows no continuing population and no living germplasm holding, and 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 database places the plant in a garden on Wynberg Hill, on the Cape Peninsula, and names no street or house. The point -33.99, 18.45 is the hill's survey beacon, OpenStreetMap node 7204435024 (national survey reference 3318-32, 202 m; SRTM gives 196 m there). The hill has no mapped outline, so the uncertainty is set to reach the middle of the suburb of Wynberg on its eastern side (OpenStreetMap relation 2047366), 2.2 km from the beacon, with 1 km added for the rounding of the point. It is a point for the hill, not for the garden. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the database publishes no coordinate for the sheet. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 3 km.
Editorial treatment
This entry is in SANBI's own POSA front end but not in the BODATSA feed that reaches GBIF, so a GBIF sweep misses it. Ten of the Compton Herbarium's fifteen Cannabis entries are in that position, against five that the feed carries. Every one was checked against GBIF by catalogue number and returned no match.
BODATSA publishes no per-specimen page, so the accession cites the database and the barcode identifies the sheet.
The collector is unrecorded, so the title follows the wiki's Algeria precedent for an anonymous sheet with a place and a date, as at Anon. s.n., Guémar (1858). The collector field is left empty rather than filled with the catalogue's word Unknown, which is a statement about the catalogue and not a name.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:15, 24 September 2026 (+07)