Talk:Moll 5530 (1971)

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Page scope

Moll 5530 (1971) 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 database gives the date as 19 October 1971, the locality as Gwaleweni Forest. and the altitude as 609 m, and describes a herb one metre high. It records no habitat, use or note on cultivation, and 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 point -27.375, 32.125 is the one the herbarium database, BODATSA, publishes for this sheet. It is the centre of the quarter-degree square 2732AC, about 27 km across, and not the place the plant was gathered: BODATSA gives its accuracy, 1/4dg, and stores the square's code beside it. Of the 61 georeferenced Cannabis rows in BODATSA, all 41 flagged 1/4dg fall exactly on a square's centre and none of the other 20 does. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no Cannabis coordinate in BODATSA has been verified by the herbarium. Gwaleweni Forest, the place the label names, was not found in OpenStreetMap, so the square could not be checked against it. The point is carried at the precision the database gives it. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 19 km.

Editorial treatment

The KwaZulu-Natal Herbarium publishes no per-specimen page. Five permalink shapes were tried for a sheet and all answered 404, so the accession cites the database itself and the barcode identifies the sheet.

The collector made a second gathering at the same forest and altitude the day before, Moll 5521, whose duplicate at Naturalis names a second collector and records the plant as cultivated in a forest clearing. The Durban entry for this one names no second collector.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:21, 24 September 2026 (+07)