Talk:Martin 1860 (1973)
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Evidentiary scope
The label records the plant as cultivated and, where it says so, its uses. 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.
This gathering was bought, not collected in the field: the label's place is a market. It shows that cannabis was on sale in Vientiane in May 1973, grown in gardens, and used as a drug and a medicine. It does not show where the plant was grown.
Georeferencing
The label's place is the market at Vientiane. The coordinate is the OpenStreetMap point for the city, 17.9641, 102.6134, under Tier A of the coordinate ruling of 18 September 2026: a named settlement. It locates the market, not the ground the plant grew on.
Editorial treatment
The collector field holds the label's own form. The 1860 label reads Collect.: MARTIN Marie A. and the 1864 label Collect.: Marie Martin. The ethnobotanist Marie Alexandrine Martin worked in Laos and Cambodia in these years, but no source read for this page identifies her as this collector, and none is asserted here. Check it before a person page is linked.
The label dates the gathering to the month, 5/73, and the catalogue to May 1973. The collection date field holds the month, not a day.
The local name field holds the label's romanisation Kan Xa mè. The label's own gloss, the female plant, is given in the article and not expanded further.
Source discrepancies
- The catalogue writes the locality vendue sur la marché; the label reads Vendue sur le marché.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 17:25, 23 September 2026 (+07)