Talk:Hilliard 8901 (1976)
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Evidentiary scope
The label gives the place as Underberg distr., Bushman's Nek, Thamathu Cave, 7500 ft., the date as 3 February 1976, the collectors as O.M. Hilliard and B.L. Burtt and the number as 8901. It names no habitat, use or note on cultivation. It does not say how the plant came to be at the cave, and nothing is inferred from the shelter. Nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped, so the accession is classified Unknown. No conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
The label reads Underberg distr., Bushman's Nek, Thamathu Cave, 7500 ft. The point -29.83, 29.15 is Thamathu Cave, OpenStreetMap node 2424688354, a cave entrance on the Thamathu Pass trail above Bushman's Nek. SRTM gives 2,345 metres at the node, 59 metres above the label's 7,500 ft (2,286 metres), which agrees with the identification. It places the gathering at the cave, not at a spot near it; 1 km covers the rounding of the point. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the locality is a place name rather than a point. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 1 km.
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.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:27, 24 September 2026 (+07)