Talk:Partridge s.n., Aracataca (1973), HUA 537
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Evidentiary scope
The catalogue transcribes the label as Female plant called La Blanca: a female plant known by a name, gathered the same day and place as La Morada, whose label says the name was the local one. Drug-type cannabis from other regions began to be cross-bred, and its seed carried into old growing areas, from the early 1970s (McPartland and Small 2020, pp. 84–85), so the date of this sheet does not exclude introduced seed. The class rests on the label: a plant of the place known by a local name. The accession is classified Landrace, by inference from the label. It does not say what the plant was grown for or from what seed, and it records no continuing population; no conservation priority is assigned.
Georeferencing
The label places the gathering at western slopes of the Sierra Nevada near Aracataca. The herbarium's catalogue publishes 11.149388, -74.126248 for the sheet, with an uncertainty of 8,630 m and an elevation of 450 m that the label does not give. That point lies in Santa Marta municipality, about 30 km north of Aracataca municipality's northern boundary and 62 km from the town of Aracataca, so it does not fit the label and is not used. The point 10.65, -73.88 is the middle of Aracataca municipality's administrative area in OpenStreetMap (relation 11890329, about 1,747 km²), which runs east from the town on the plain up the western slopes of the Sierra; the point falls inside it, at about 1,300 m. It is an area point for the municipality, not the place the plant was gathered. Basis: district point. Uncertainty: about 24 km.
Editorial treatment
Title. Partridge gave the sheets no number, and the herbarium holds four of them from the same day and place. The titles take the collector, s.n., the place and the year, and add the herbarium's catalogue number to tell the three gatherings apart.
Collector. The catalogue enters Partridge W.; the label, read on a photograph of the sheet, gives William L. Partridge. The collector field keeps the label's initials form.
Local name. The catalogue's note says the plant was called La Blanca but, unlike the La Morada sheet's label, not that the name was local; that wording on this sheet's label has not been read. The local name field takes la blanca in the form the La Morada sheet gives its name.
Image. The image is a phone photograph of the sheet in the herbarium, at 800 × 1440 pixels; neither the herbarium's catalogue on GBIF nor any other portal publishes an image of it. Readings marked uncertain could not be settled at that resolution.
Sources not yet read
- Partridge's chapter in Cannabis and Culture (1975), pp. 147–172, and his 1974 University of Florida thesis have not been read for these gatherings. Either may say more about the planting the sheets were cut from.
- The label of this sheet has not been photographed; the readings are the catalogue's.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 10:10, 2 November 2026 (+07)