Talk:Burtt Davy 2509 (1903)

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Page scope

Burtt Davy 2509 (1903) 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 database gives the locality as SPRINGBOK FLATS; SUDLOW FARM, the collector J. Burtt Davy, the number 2509 and the date November 1903. The farm is named as a place; the entry does not say what was grown on it. It records no habitat, use or note on cultivation, and the label has not been read, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown until the label can be read. 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 SPRINGBOK FLATS; SUDLOW FARM. Sudlow farm was not found in OpenStreetMap, Nominatim or GeoNames. The Springbok Flats, the Springbokvlakte, have no mapped outline: GeoNames gives the plain a single point, at −24.75, 28.83 in Limpopo, the province the page states, so the named area cannot be given an area point with an honest radius. An earlier version of this note gave no point only because the herbarium database carries no coordinate for the sheet.

Editorial treatment

The catalogue places the gathering in Gauteng. The Springbok Flats, the only part of the locality that can be placed, lie in Limpopo, where GeoNames puts its one point for the plain, so the province field carries Limpopo. The farm named with them was not found, and the label has not been read.

BODATSA publishes no per-specimen page: five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet and all answered 404. The accession cites the database itself, and the barcode identifies the sheet.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 06:16, 24 September 2026 (+07)