Talk:Van der Walt s.n., Skukuza (1981)
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Evidentiary scope
A plant in the staff village of a national park's headquarters. 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
The coordinate is a village centroid, not a field fix. The entry gives -24.994722, 31.590278, and the 1985 gathering at the same camp gives exactly the same figures to six decimal places. Two gatherings four years apart agreeing to the sixth decimal is a look-up on the place name, not two readings. The point is carried on the ruling of 23 September 2026 and should be read as at Skukuza.
Editorial treatment
The Skukuza Herbarium is a herbarium outside the usual list. It publishes 15,811 records to GBIF under CC BY-NC 4.0 and holds four Cannabis entries, two of which duplicate a Pretoria sheet and two of which, this and the 1985 one, are gatherings no other herbarium has. A sweep of the herbaria named in the brief would have missed all four; it was found by faceting South African plant specimens by dataset.
Its entries are the only ones in the South African batch whose vernacular column is filled in. All four read Dagga.
The gathering has no catalogue number and no collector's number, so the title follows the Algeria precedent for a numberless sheet with a named collector and a place.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:27, 24 September 2026 (+07)