Talk:PRE 52602, Carter’s bird seed (s.d.)

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PRE 52602, Carter’s bird seed (s.d.) is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Discussion

Evidentiary scope

This is not a field gathering. Hemp seed is a common constituent of bird seed, and the entry records a sample of a commercial product. It carries no date, no country and no place. It is included because it is part of the South African Cannabis holding and because the trade in hemp seed is itself in scope, but it documents a supply chain rather than a population. The catalogue gives a collector, a number, a date and a locality. 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.

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

BODATSA publishes no coordinate for this sheet. None is asserted.

Editorial treatment

BODATSA writes a PRE accession number into the collector-number field of this entry. PRE 52602 is the herbarium's own number for the sheet, not a number the collector gave the gathering, and the collector-number field carries it as the database has it. Nine Cannabis entries in BODATSA do the same.

The locality string is cut off in the database at FA, most likely for FACTORY. It is quoted as it stands and not completed.

This entry is the second of the two Cannabis rows in BODATSA with a blank country field.

Source discrepancies

Edwin Percy Phillips was a botanist at the National Herbarium; whether he gathered the sample or merely registered it is not recorded.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:14, 24 September 2026 (+07)