Talk:Codd 8506 (1954)

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Page scope

Codd 8506 (1954) 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 plant was grown at a government experiment station, so the accession documents an institutional growing rather than a population in the landscape. Its value is the label: it names the plant Dagga, describes the habit, and pairs with the male sheet of four weeks earlier. The catalogue gives a collector, a number, a date and a locality. It is a single gathering and shows neither a continuing population nor a living germplasm holding, so it supports neither a landrace nor a feral classification. The accession is classified Other. No conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

The card names the Prinshof Experiment Station, Pretoria, and the district of Pretoria. The station is not mapped, and no source read places it more closely than Pretoria. The point -25.75, 28.19 is the city of Pretoria, OpenStreetMap node 25503669. The 2011 census gives the city 687.54 km² (English Wikipedia, Pretoria), a circle about 14.8 km in radius, and 1 km is added for the rounding of the point. It places the gathering in Pretoria, not at the station. No catalogue of the three sheets gives a coordinate. An earlier version of this note gave no point for that reason alone. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 16 km.

Editorial treatment

The collector's number is read from the label. The Paris catalogue leaves the field empty; Meise and Naturalis both give 8506, and the card on the Paris sheet shows it.

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The label's word for the plant, Dagga, is recorded in the local-name field. It is Afrikaans, and it is the only one of the four vernaculars recorded on the South African sheets that is not isiZulu.

Source discrepancies

Meise spells the station Experment where the label reads Experiment. The article quotes Meise's string as the catalogue has it.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:26, 24 September 2026 (+07)