Talk:Martin 1866 (1973)

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Page scope

Martin 1866 (1973) 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

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

The catalogue records the plant as Cultivée (cultivated) at Bon Xay Fonj, près Vientiane (Ban Xay Fong, near Vientiane), in May 1973. It gives no local name and no use. Seed of drug-type cannabis from elsewhere reached old growing areas from the 1970s (McPartland and Small 2020, pp. 84–85), so the date of this sheet does not exclude introduced seed. The class rests on the catalogue: cultivation in the village of Ban Xay Fong. The accession is classified Landrace, by inference from the catalogue. The sheet does not show what became of the crop or whether its seed survives, and no conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

As for Martin 1864: Ban Xay Fong was not resolved in OpenStreetMap. No coordinate is asserted.

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 locality field holds Ban Xay Fong, the spelling of the 1864 label, so that the three sheets of the village sort together.

Source discrepancies

The catalogue writes the village Bon Xay Fonj for this sheet and Bon Xay Fong for Martin 1865; the 1864 label reads Ban Xay Fong. The three are taken to be one village.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 17:26, 23 September 2026 (+07)