Talk:Louw s.n., Stellenbosch (1967)

Talk

Discussion for: Louw s.n., Stellenbosch (1967) • View • Links • Related changes

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

Page scope

Louw s.n., Stellenbosch (1967) is about a single collection of cannabis, a seed lot or a herbarium specimen: where and when it was gathered, by whom, and what the sources say about the plants.

Data verification

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

Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The database gives the date as 8 March 1967, the collector as A. W. H. Louw and the locality as Stellenbosch Dist. Kerkgrond Stellenbosch. (Kerkgrond is Afrikaans for church land). That names a piece of ground and gives no habitat, use or note on cultivation. No image of the label is published, so nothing shows whether the plant was cultivated, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown, and 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 database names Kerkgrond Stellenbosch, church land in the town of Stellenbosch, and does not say which church's land. The point -33.93, 18.87 is the town, OpenStreetMap relation 20601962 (place town). The 2011 census gives the main place of Stellenbosch 10.12 km² (English Wikipedia, Stellenbosch), a circle about 1.8 km in radius, and 1 km is added for the rounding of the point. It places the gathering in the town, not on the church land itself. An earlier version of this note gave no point because the database publishes no coordinate for the sheet. Basis: settlement point. Uncertainty: about 3 km.

Editorial treatment

This entry is in SANBI's own POSA front end but not in the BODATSA feed that reaches GBIF, so a GBIF sweep misses it. Ten of the Compton Herbarium's fifteen Cannabis entries are in that position, against five that the feed carries. Every one was checked against GBIF by catalogue number and returned no match.

BODATSA publishes no per-specimen page, so the accession cites the database and the barcode identifies the sheet.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:16, 24 September 2026 (+07)