Talk:Wager PRE 52603 (1962)
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Evidentiary scope
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 the centre of a quarter-degree square, not a field fix. BODATSA records the accuracy as 1/4dg and stores the square's code alongside it; a quarter-degree square is about 27 km across. Of the 61 georeferenced Cannabis rows in BODATSA, all 41 flagged 1/4dg fall exactly on a square's centre and none of the other 20 does. On Éloïse's ruling of 23 September 2026 the point is carried, at the precision the database gives it, with the accuracy stated here. BODATSA's LatLongChecked field is null on every Cannabis row, so no coordinate in this batch has been verified by the herbarium.
The square is 2931CC.
Editorial treatment
BODATSA writes a PRE accession number into the collector-number field of this entry. PRE 52603 is the herbarium's own number for the sheet, not a number the collector gave the gathering, and the collector-number field carries it as the database has it. Nine Cannabis entries in BODATSA do the same.
The collector is recorded as Wager with no initial in either catalogue. The collector field carries the surname alone and does not wikilink it, because the person cannot be identified from the entry.
Source discrepancies
PRE gives 8 February 1962 and NH gives 8 June 1962 for what is on every other field one gathering. A transposition of the month in one of the two entries is the obvious explanation, but which one is wrong cannot be told from the catalogues. The accession carries Pretoria's date and records Durban's here. Neither is corrected.
These notes were recorded during accession preparation. Source citations remain in the article. Éloise 07:28, 24 September 2026 (+07)