Talk:Garrett 851 (1933)

Talk

Discussion for: Garrett 851 (1933) • View • Links • Related changes

Use this page for verification notes, disputes, and action items. Keep narrative content on the article.

Page scope

Garrett 851 (1933) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

Data verification

Check the main page for documentation tier status. Discuss coordinate accuracy, photo quality, or collection details here.

Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The label records cultivation and a purpose: the plants were Cultivated by Mêo people for weaving. It gives a local name, Pān. It records no variety name and no seed. The sheet 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 label names Doi Langkā (ดอยลังกา) and Mê Soi (แม่สอย) at about 1,100 metres by aneroid. On the southern slopes of Doi Lanka Luang, OpenStreetMap maps a stream, Nam Mae Soi (น้ำแม่สอย, way/1076726762), beside a hamlet, Ban Doi Lanka (บ้านดอยลังกา, node/9869356332). A search of the mountain's surroundings found no other Mae Soi. The hamlet stands at 1,039 m on SRTM against the label's c. 1,100 m. The infobox georeferences the hamlet at 18.97, 99.42 as a locality point, not a reconstructed collection point; it places the gathering to within about 5 km. Both features lie in Mueang Pan District, Lampang Province. The province and district fields follow them.

Entered under Tier A of the coordinate ruling of 18 September 2026.

Editorial treatment

The collector field uses the label form H. B. G. Garrett. The elevation field stores the label's aneroid figure of 1,100 m.

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle holds a Garrett sheet of 2 December 1933, catalogue P06884295, with no locality and no number in its catalogue (GBIF occurrence 731719491). Its image could not be retrieved, so whether it belongs to this gathering or to Garrett 852 is not settled.

The infobox shows the Leiden duplicate, which Naturalis publishes under CC0, in preference to a fair-use copy of the Forest Herbarium's scan.

Source discrepancies

The Forest Herbarium catalogue gives the habitat as Cultivated by Mêo people for wearing. The label reads weaving. The article follows the label.
The catalogue gives the major area as Chiang Rai. The label names no province. The places it names lie in Lampang Province, which the province field follows.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 15:52, 18 September 2026 (+07)