Talk:Netshiungani 1453 (1982)
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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue gives the locality as VENDA; THATHE VONDO; FOUND ON HEAP OF SOIL FOR NURSERY PURPOSES, on 10 March 1982. The plant was growing on a heap of nursery soil, which is a volunteer on disturbed ground rather than a cultivated stand. The accession is classified Feral, by inference from the catalogue; the catalogue does not say whether the plants descended from a crop. A single gathering does not establish a continuing population, 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 coordinate is the centre of a quarter-degree square, not a field fix. BODATSA records the accuracy as 1/4dg and stores the square's code alongside it; a quarter-degree square is about 27 km across. 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. The point is carried at the precision the database gives it, with the accuracy stated here. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no Cannabis coordinate in BODATSA has been verified by the herbarium.
The square is 2230CD.
Editorial treatment
The locality names Venda, which between 1979 and 1994 was a nominally independent bantustan and is now part of Limpopo. The province field carries the current province and the article quotes the database's string.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 06:25, 24 September 2026 (+07)