Talk:F G C 368, Fort Napier (s.d.)
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Evidentiary scope
The sheet documents a use as well as a plant, which is rare in this batch: most of the South African corpus records a determination and a place and nothing about what the plant was for. 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
No catalogue gives a coordinate for this sheet, and the label gives none. None is asserted.
Editorial treatment
Edinburgh's catalogue records no collector, number, date or country for this sheet. It files it under the region Southern Africa and nothing more. Every value this accession carries was read from the digitised sheet in September 2026, and the reading is what the accession rests on.
The date cannot be resolved and is left empty. The label's date line reads Nov 15. That is either the fifteenth of November with no year, or November 1915. The label supports both readings and settles neither, and no date is entered. The title uses s.d.
The collector line reads F G C and nothing else. The collector field carries those initials as the label writes them and does not wikilink them, because there is no identified person to link to. The title carries them for want of a surname.
The form is a printed one with an Edit. L.C. line, which suggests a series rather than a single sheet; whether Edinburgh holds others from it was not checked.
Source discrepancies
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh publishes two licences for this image. Its IIIF manifest states CC BY-SA 2.5 with attribution required; the Darwin Core record and GBIF's media block state CC0. The file page follows the manifest, which is the herbarium's own statement about the image rather than about the data, as the wiki's earlier Edinburgh file pages do.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:25, 24 September 2026 (+07)