Talk:Lansdell 630 (s.d.)
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Evidentiary scope
The determination to var. spontanea is a claim about the plant's wild or escaped status made by whoever determined the sheet, and the entry names no determiner and gives no date. It is recorded as the determination that stands, not as evidence that the population was feral. The accession is classified Other. No conservation priority is assigned.
The Botanical Database of Southern Africa publishes no image of this sheet. Its image count is zero, and so is the image count of all 1,361,966 rows in the database: the store is empty, and SANBI's own site still lists plant images among its plans. The accession carries no image until the herbarium supplies a scan.
Georeferencing
The coordinate is coarser than a quarter-degree square: BODATSA records its accuracy as 5k. The point is carried on the ruling of 23 September 2026, but it locates the gathering within a region, not a site.
The same point, -25.78544, 31.04771, is carried by the Barberton sheet of 1934, a different collector in a different decade. Two gatherings agreeing to five decimal places is the signature of a gazetteer look-up on the town's name.
Editorial treatment
The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium publishes no per-specimen page. Five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet of this batch and all answered 404, so the accession cites the database itself and the barcode identifies the sheet.
The entry carries no date, and none is supplied. The title uses s.d., for sine dato.
The same collector's number 862, at Groenkloof in Pretoria, is a separate accession, and the two catalogues disagree about its date by fifty-three years.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:23, 24 September 2026 (+07)