Talk:Pongamornkul 579 (2000)
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Evidentiary scope
The database gives the collector as W. Pongamornkul, the date as 19 December 2000, the place as Chiang Mai, Thailand and the altitude as 1600 m. Its field note reads Terrestrial herb 1.5-2 m tall cultivated. Female inflorescences. That records cultivation, but nothing ties it to local growers: it names no people, village, local name or use. The sheet dates from 2000, which is from 1966 on, so the date does not help. Nothing shows that the plant was a local crop, so the accession is classified Unknown. No conservation priority is assigned.
QBG publishes no image of this sheet: its database entry reads Specimen's picture not found. The accession is text only until the herbarium supplies a scan.
Georeferencing
QBG's database gives the locality as a province and no more: no district, no village, no coordinate. A province alone is not a point, and none is asserted. The locality field holds the province name.
Editorial treatment
QBG's online dates run one day earlier than the labels wherever the two can be compared: Nanakorn 7031, Nanakorn 8642 and Phengklai T-49897 each read a day later on the Forest Herbarium's scan of the same gathering, and two of QBG's Myanmar sheets read a day later in the Smithsonian's record of their duplicates. The collection date field holds the database's date as it stands. Treat it as unconfirmed, and read the label before relying on the day.
The collector made two gatherings at this altitude in the same month, one of each sex. This is the female.
Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 17:21, 23 September 2026 (+07)