Talk:Pelser s.n., Skukuza (1985)

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Page scope

Pelser s.n., Skukuza (1985) 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.

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Evidentiary scope

The catalogue records the collectors Pelser and Potgieter, the date 31 October 1985, the locality Skukuza staff village house 143., the vernacular name Dagga and the plant as Herb with Palmate leaves. The locality names a house in the staff village. It gives no habitat, use or note on cultivation, so nothing shows whether the plant was grown there, grew wild or had escaped. The accession is classified Unknown. 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 -24.994722, 31.590278 is the one the Skukuza Herbarium publishes for this sheet. It is the same point, to six decimal places, as the 1981 gathering; this entry names a particular house and that one named the camp, so the point is a look-up on the camp's name and locates the camp, not the house. It lies 0.2 km from Skukuza Rest Camp in OpenStreetMap (node 262716119). The 2011 census gives Skukuza 4.98 km² (English Wikipedia, Skukuza), a circle about 1.3 km in radius, so the point places the gathering in the camp to within about 2 km and no closer. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 2 km.

Editorial treatment

A. L. F. Potgieter collected both this and the 1981 gathering, with a different first collector each time.

The gathering has no catalogue number and no collector's number; the title follows the same precedent.

Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:27, 24 September 2026 (+07)