Talk:Soejarto 4236 (1973)

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Page scope

Soejarto 4236 (1973) 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 transcribes the habit, Slender shrub 1 m tall, and the name Marihuana. The label, read on photographs of both sheets, adds flowers pale green and Plant cultivated in Medellin, alt. 1500 m. It says the plant was grown in the city in 1973 and nothing more: not by whom, from what seed or for what. A bare statement of cultivation at that date does not tie the plant to a local crop. The accession is classified Unknown. It does not establish a continuing population, and no conservation priority is assigned.

Georeferencing

The point 6.257693, -75.609695 is the one the herbarium's catalogue publishes for both sheets, with an uncertainty of 17,885 m, georeferenced in 2015 from the Codazzi 1:100,000 map sheets. It falls inside Medellín municipality, in the comuna of La América in OpenStreetMap. The label gives the altitude as 1,500 m; SRTM gives 1,521 m at the point. The label names the city and no place within it, and the catalogue's uncertainty covers the municipality. Basis: holder's georeference. Uncertainty: about 18 km.

Editorial treatment

Collector. The catalogue enters Soejarto D., Tropicos Djaja D. Soejarto, and the label, read on the photographs, Djaja D. Soejarto. The collector field takes the initials form.

Tropicos. The Tropicos entry (1797313) names the herbarium as HUA and gives the year, place and altitude; it gives no catalogue number, so it is not counted as a third sheet.

Local name. Marihuana is in quotation marks on the label, as the plant's common name; the field takes it in lower case.

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.

These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 10:10, 2 November 2026 (+07)