Talk:Hilliard 8901 (1976)

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Page scope

Hilliard 8901 (1976) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

Data verification

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

A cannabis plant at a named rock shelter above 2,200 m on the Lesotho border is unlike anything else in the batch: the next highest is Magubane 66 at 1,316 m, also in the Drakensberg. The label says nothing about how the plant came to be there, and nothing should be inferred from the shelter. 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 database gives no coordinate, and none is asserted. The locality names a district, a pass and a cave, which is finer than most of the batch, but it is a place name rather than a point.

Editorial treatment

The elevation is metres, converted by the database from the label's feet. The label reads 7,500 ft; the database stores 2,286 m. The field carries metres. Converting back to feet would reintroduce a rounding the label never had.

The gathering has two collectors, Olive Mary Hilliard and Brian Laurence Burtt. The collector field carries the first, because that field auto-links; the article names both.

The Bews Herbarium states of its images: Copyright (©): Permission granted to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited. That is not a free licence, so the file page rests on a fair-use rationale rather than on a licence template. A licence request to the herbarium would settle it.

The Bews Herbarium publishes 37,330 of its sheets online, against a collection its own site puts at about 150,000, so roughly two sheets in three are not catalogued anywhere public. Index Herbariorum names no database for it: the URL appears only in its website field. A search that stops at GBIF, or at Index Herbariorum's database fields, finds neither of its two Cannabis sheets.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:27, 24 September 2026 (+07)