Talk:Brichi s.n., Alger (1909)
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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue gives the label as Alger, lieux incultes (Algiers, uncultivated places), with the date 29 May 1909. The plant grew on ground that was not under cultivation. The catalogue records no use and no local name. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the catalogue; it does not say whether the plants descended from a crop. A single gathering does not establish a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.
The name on the sheet
This sheet is stored under Cannabis sativa L. var. kif A.DC., determined by the collector. No other accession in the corpus carries that name.
The name is not in the International Plant Names Index, which returns nothing for it. Its place of publication was traced instead to the primary: de Candolle's Prodromus, volume 16 part 1, page 31, where the variety is defined as the plant cultivated in Algeria under the names kif and tekrouri and the reader is referred to Isidore Dukerley's note of 1866 for the description. Dukerley s.n., Bône (s.d.) is a sheet by that collector.
The infobox stores the name the sheet is filed under, not the current name. The catalogue carries both and gives Cannabis sativa L. as current.
Georeferencing
The point 36.76306, 3.05056 is the georeference the sheet's publisher gives, with a stated uncertainty of two kilometres. It is a point for Algiers, not for the place the plant was gathered: the label's Alger, lieux incultes (Algiers, uncultivated places) names no site within the town. It falls inside Algiers Province, as the page states. An earlier version of this note recorded the published point but gave none, on the ground that the label locates no site within Algiers. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 2 km.
Editorial treatment
The annotations read Herbaier de l'Afrique du nord; duplicatum ex Herbario Universitatis Icosiensis. Universitas Icosiensis is the Latin name of the University of Algiers, from Icosium, the Roman name of the city. The sheet at Brno is therefore a duplicate and the primary sheet, if it survives, is in Algiers.
Herbaier is transcribed as the catalogue gives it. It is very likely Herbier.
No image of the sheet is published by the herbarium or by GBIF, so the label is known only through the catalogue's transcription. Unlike the Paris sheets, this is an absence of an image and not a blocked one.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 08:12, 18 September 2026 (+07)